On 01/05/2012 04:24 PM, octessence wrote:> Although this question is very old, I thought I'd reply to the post
since I had exactly the same issue with openSUSE 12.1 but have solved it. I
couldn't find an answer anywhere else on the internet so this is to save
other people spending time solving it like I just had to.
>
> In openSUSE, the bulk of the wine tools is contained in the 'wine'
package and not the 'wine-32-bit' package so removing the 64-bit wine
package will cripple everything. Also contrary to the answer above, a 32-bit
gecko package does not exist and is not needed to solve the issue.
>
> All that is required to fix this it to define the environment variable:
>
> export WINEARCH=win32
>
> before ~/.wine is created for the first time.
>
> This prevents wine being structured as a 64-bit installation and allows
winetricks to work properly.
>
> O.
>
>
I am going to be shortly putting together a 64-bit machine. I will
install pclos. Should I put in this command
"export WINEARCH=win32" before I get Wine from the repository, and if
so, is it supposed to be in some particular
directory, or can I just write it from my home user, and does it have to
be as a superuser? Since I don't have the
history of this thread, and some others also may not, I would appreciate
some background here.
--doug