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Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:18:45 -0800
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On 11/04/2014 07:43 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
>
> On 3 November 2014 23:35, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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>     On 11/03/2014 04:06 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>
>         On 11/03/2014 01:39 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
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>             Hi All,
>
>             This is kind of critical.  Any help would be greatly
>             appreciated.
>
>             Okay, I give up.  Downloaded and installed Wine from EPEL.
>
>             SL7 wine-1.7.22-1.el7.x86_64
>
>             It refuses to run 32 bit apps.  Tells me I can not run 32
>             bit apps
>             under a 64 bit program.  WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH do not help nor
>             does any of the FAQ over on wine-hq:
>             http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#32___bit_wineprefix
>             <http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#32_bit_wineprefix>
>
>             WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix winecfg
>             Crashes with the same 32 bit/64 bit error.
>
>             Any one know how to get 32 bit apps to run under wine?
>
>             Many thanks,
>             -T
>
>
>
>         Hi All,
>
>         Michael Cronenworth of EPEL answered me on this one:
>
>                 In order to run 32-bit Windows PE binaries you need a
>                 32-bit Wine binary.   RHEL 7 and EPEL 7 does not provide
>                 a 32-bit development environment to compile 32-bit Wine.
>                 This is a "feature" of RHEL 7.
>
>                 You cannot run 32-bit apps unless you compile 32-bit
>                 Wine yourself.
>
>         Dang!
>
>         -T
>
>
>     This is bad.  I may have to scrub SL7 off that computer and
>     install FC20.  Anyone know if we will get 32 wine support
>     from anywhere else?
>
>
> Not without someone doing a lot of legwork to get 32 bit libs compiled
> which no one seems to be wanting to do. [Lots of requests to have it..
> no one willing to do it.]
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.
>


Hi Steven,

This guy seems to have done it, but I am not all that trusting
of such unknown third party spins.  Also, who knows if he
will update his stuff.

http://finsmedia.com/winerpms.tar.gz

I am seriously thinking of ripping out SL 7 from that machine.

-T

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