Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Christian Barthel
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, 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

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Ashley Williams
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

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:37:06 +0200, Christian Barthel wrote: I don't understand why you have chosen AMD64? You only have 2 GB memory, which can be adressed under i386 too and you can avoid a lot of problems. Reason: The i386 platform is obsoleted, and there will be less and less targets to

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Polytropon
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

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Christian Barthel b...@nyx.user-mode.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: 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,

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Robert Huff
Christian Barthel writes: 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? I don't understand why you have chosen AMD64? You only

Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Polytropon
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

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Andre Goree
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

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, 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

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:32:54 -0500, Andre Goree wrote: This worked out for me when I was in the same predicament a few days ago: http://www.mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64 Thank you, I've just rriet it. Pre-installation tasks are easy (implied that I did everything correctly), but then, make and

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:42:04 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: There is someone who makes packages for wine on amd64. See http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/wine/ Thanks, this did help. I was able to install this package, but then had to manually install wine-gecko. After changing $PACKAGESITE to the