Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:39:44 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ashley Williams <ashley.wil@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing and using wine on amd64 Message-ID: <20110815103944.2b2bddcf.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAHTXkPLMMoh%2BNdtGKsccrFWtAirK4ztRn-2pR=SZx%2B2iqTQDig@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110814222708.2a06dc05.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110815073706.GA17654@nyx.user-mode.org> <CAHTXkPLMMoh%2BNdtGKsccrFWtAirK4ztRn-2pR=SZx%2B2iqTQDig@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:04:53 +1000, Ashley Williams wrote: > >> 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? > > You can get wine running on AMD64, see the following wiki link: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#head-6963d527c173e57b1567e881305b544d33435b6d Thanks, I now got it working, the only remaining problems is that the programs I intend to run (older than 5 years, maybe even 10) have problems with "DirectX" stuff which I am supposed to manually install... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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