Hi guys,

I'm trying to install wine on Paldo unstable but upkg just tells me "the system is already up-to-date".

PS: I checked if it's already installed but it's not...
 
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Running GNU/Linux Paldo 1.18 (unstable). Rock my box!

Are you on x86_64? Wine requires a 32-bit environment for Win32 applications.

I know but recent releases can be build on 64-bit systems. It just needs GCC 4.4. It's experimental but should fit in the unstable repository.

More info @ http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64
 
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Running GNU/Linux Paldo 1.18 (unstable). Rock my box!

You will only be able to run Win64 applications, though. I doubt this would be very useful as they are still quite rare.

The Wine wiki is somewhat chaotic about this: 32-bit apps should work also on Wine64 since the last part of the wikipage contains a list of "Apps whose 32-bit versions work well with Wine".
 
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Running GNU/Linux Paldo 1.18 (unstable). Rock my box!

The page might be a bit confusing, but it only lists Win64 applications. The 32-bit comment is just for the categorization of the 64-bit applications.

Wine does not support running 32-bit applications in a 64-bit only environment as it depends on various external libraries. Many 64-bit distros provide 32-bit compatibility libraries for this purpose, however, paldo x86_64 does not, it's a pure 64-bit system.

Uhm... so the only way to run Windows binaries on a x86_64 Paldo system is to use virtualization right?
 
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Running GNU/Linux Paldo 1.18 (unstable). Rock my box!