Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Robert Huff
Christian Barthel writes: > > Current system is 8.2-STABLE/amd64. Should I better re-install > > everything (Intel Core2 4300 1.80GHz / 1799.81-MHz K8-class CPU > > here, and 2 GB RAM, that's why the AMD64 choice) and use i386 > > instead? > > I don't understand why you have chosen AMD64? Y

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Christian Barthel wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: >> Current system is 8.2-STABLE/amd64. Should I better re-install >> everything (Intel Core2 4300 1.80GHz / 1799.81-MHz K8-class CPU >> here, and 2 GB RAM, that's why the AMD64

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:04:53 +1000, Ashley Williams wrote: > >> I've done some research and found lots of posts several years > >> old that suggest that using wine on AMD64 is not possible or > >> requires binary packages that don't exist, and even if one can > >> install it, it doesn't run. > >> >

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:37:06 +0200, Christian Barthel wrote: > I don't understand why you have chosen AMD64? You only have 2 GB memory, > which can be adressed under i386 too and you can avoid a lot of > problems. Reason: The i386 platform is obsoleted, and there will be less and less targets to

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Ashley Williams
>> I've done some research and found lots of posts several years >> old that suggest that using wine on AMD64 is not possible or >> requires binary packages that don't exist, and even if one can >> install it, it doesn't run. >> >> Has this situation improved meanwhile? Does anyone have a >> recipe

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Christian Barthel
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > In order to restore functionality that my old system provided > almost 10 years ago (I checked when I bought it!), I'm currently > trying to get wine working. Sadly, its Makefile states: > > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386 > > I've done some

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:42:04 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > There is someone who makes packages for wine on amd64. See > http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/wine/ Thanks, this did help. I was able to install this package, but then had to manually install wine-gecko. After changing $PACKAGESITE to the

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:32:54 -0500, Andre Goree wrote: > This worked out for me when I was in the same predicament a few days > ago: http://www.mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64 Thank you, I've just rriet it. Pre-installation tasks are easy (implied that I did everything correctly), but then, make and p

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > In order to restore functionality that my old system provided > almost 10 years ago (I checked when I bought it!), I'm currently > trying to get wine working. Sadly, its Makefile states: > > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386 > > I've done some

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Andre Goree
On 08/14/2011 15:27, Polytropon wrote: In order to restore functionality that my old system provided almost 10 years ago (I checked when I bought it!), I'm currently trying to get wine working. Sadly, its Makefile states: ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386 I've done some research and found lots of pos

Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Polytropon
In order to restore functionality that my old system provided almost 10 years ago (I checked when I bought it!), I'm currently trying to get wine working. Sadly, its Makefile states: ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386 I've done some research and found lots of posts several years old that suggest that us