Installing Wine on 64 Bit

Solution 1:

I have Ubuntu 12.10 64 Bit and there is no need to do anything additional except the installation of the PPA. But first we need to fix your broken packages:

First we do sudo apt-get install -f to fix Broken packages

Then just in case we do sudo apt-get autoremove to do some cleaning.

To test if everything is fixed do sudo apt-get update. If it finishes with no problems then we are done fixing packages. We now proceed to install wine CORRECTLY:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.5

This will download both, the 32 Bit and 64 Bit packages for Wine as seen in the following output:

cyrex@cyrex:~$ sudo aptitude show wine1.5 -v | grep -e Depends
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgettextpo0, wine1.5-i386 (= 1.5.17-0ubuntu4)

At the end it shows wine1.5-i386 and I have already tested Ms-DOS games and Windows XP games (Both 16 Bit and 32 Bit) working in Ubuntu 12.10 64 Bit.

Solution 2:

Having explored the internet and forum pages I have found the following has worked for me:-

Via terminal give the following codes one at a time

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine

The download amounts to some 500 mb but it has worked!

I am running Linux Mint 14 Mate 64 bit.