Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:32:54 -0500 From: Andre Goree <andre@drenet.info> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing and using wine on amd64 Message-ID: <4E4830F6.4030507@drenet.info> In-Reply-To: <20110814222708.2a06dc05.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20110814222708.2a06dc05.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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 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 on how to get wine running? > > 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? > > And maybe fix Gtk+ triggered GPU trouble that way? :-) > > > This worked out for me when I was in the same predicament a few days ago: http://www.mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64 -- Andre Goree andre@drenet.info
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