Wine on Trisquel 6.0

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favo
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I'm attempting to install Wine from Synaptic. It seems 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 are all there.

1.4 proclaims to be a broken package when you select it, and 1.2 and 1.3 tell me this: "Depends: wine1.4 but it is not going to be installed".

I've attempted to manually install Wine as well, but I receive an error regarding "held broken packages".

I'm relatively new to the GNU/Linux world, so please have patience with me. :)

Thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide.

-favo

muhammed
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I don't know much about Wine; maybe someone else will.

I can try and help you find a made-for-GNU application, that will help you do whatever task that you would like to do. What's the task?

onpon4
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Wine depends on 32-bit libraries (ia32-libs), some of which are broken in Trisquel 64-bit. See this bug report, there's a fix towards the bottom:

https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8155

axgb
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Isn't wine most commonly used to run propriatary software?

onpon4
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Yep, but Wine isn't itself proprietary. It's conceivable that one might be using Wine to run a free program that depends on the Windows API.

Of course, most people are going to use it to run proprietary Windows-only software, but I don't think it's helpful to actively prevent people from using proprietary software in Trisquel.

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Try this PPA to get the latest versions: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa

mYself
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What's the output of the "arch" command on your computer? If it's x86_64, then you'll need to enable multi-arch, by installing the ia32-libs-multiarch package first. I also recommend you to use the latest stable release of Wine (1.6.1), by either enabling the Wine Team PPA, or better, installing PlayOnLinux.