I've been running a few 32bit Windows programs with wine for many years,
but now I need to run some 64bit programs.
The Debian wine wiki says "Users on a 64-bit system should make sure
that both wine32 and wine64 (or wine32-development and
wine64-development) are installed".
I have "deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ buster main" in
sources.lists. I installed "wine64". The package lists before and after
are below. When I try to install a 64bit program using "wine
64bitprogram.exe", I get the message:
"This program can only be installed on versions of Windows designed for
the following processor architectures: x64".
So then I ran "wine64 64bitprogram.exe" and I get the message:
"wine: '/home/myacct/.wine' is a 32-bit installation, it cannot support
64-bit applications."
Installing wine64 didn't create a .wine64 directory. It seems like I'm
close, but what am I missing? Something to do with WINEPREFIX?
Before installing wine64:
# dpkg --get-selections|grep wine
fonts-wine install
libwine:i386 install
libwine-cms:i386 install
libwine-gphoto2:i386 install
libwine-ldap:i386 install
libwine-openal:i386 install
libwine-print:i386 install
libwine-sane:i386 install
wine-stable install
wine-stable-amd64 install
wine-stable-i386:i386 install
winehq-stable install
winetricks install
After installing wine64:
# dpkg --get-selections|grep wine
fonts-wine install
libwine:i386 install
libwine-cms:i386 install
libwine-gphoto2:i386 install
libwine-ldap:i386 install
libwine-openal:i386 install
libwine-print:i386 install
libwine-sane:i386 install
wine-stable install
wine-stable-amd64 install
wine-stable-i386:i386 install
winehq-stable install
winetricks install
Thanks, Rick