Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:46:19 +0200 From: Coert <lgroups@vlymskerp.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Subject: Re: Installing/running wine on amd64 system Message-ID: <19520221.uAyzs4m49L@penguin.cerberia> In-Reply-To: <20150224232534.GB64649@rancor.immure.com> References: <20150224232534.GB64649@rancor.immure.com>
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On Tuesday 24 February 2015 17:25:34 Bob Willcox wrote: > I've been trying to get my head around what I need to do to be able to > install and run wine on a FreeBSD 10.1-stable amd64 system without much > success (or progress). > > I read and followed the some of the steps that I found here: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/i386-Wine > > but didn't really understand what I was doing, and it didn't work, spewing > this: > > Updating wine repository catalogue... > pkg: > http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/dbn/repos/wine/FreeBSD:10:amd6 > 4/latest/meta.txz: Not Found pkg: repository wine has no meta file, using > default settings > pkg: > http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/dbn/repos/wine/FreeBSD:10:amd6 > 4/latest/packagesite.txz: Not Found pkg: Unable to update repository wine > > So, I guess my first question is: is what I'm trying to do make any sense? > At this point I'm not sure if this is an exercise in futility or not. > > Does anybody have any tips or pointers on what I should be doing here? Is it > possible to be able to install wine on an amd64 system, and will it be > worth it? (I'd like to be able to play some 3D games on it). > > Thanks for any help in advance, > Bob Maybe try installing it from ports.. cd /usr/ports/emulators/i386-wine make install clean I also don't think it is necessary to add a repo for wine, it is also available in the standard FreeBSD binary pkg repo (speaking under correction, I usually use ports.) -Coert
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