From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 14 20:32:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1F3106566B for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:32:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andre@drenet.info) Received: from arpnet.drenet.info (arpnet.drenet.info [174.136.104.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 000138FC13 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [10.0.0.5]) by arpnet.drenet.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEAEF2BA6 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:32:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from arpnet.drenet.info ([10.0.0.5]) by localhost (arpnet.drenet.info [10.0.0.5]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 96458-06 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:32:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from desktop.drenet.local (c-98-199-43-234.hsd1.tx.comcast.net [98.199.43.234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: andre@drenet.info) by arpnet.drenet.info (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 101CEF2BA4 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:32:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4E4830F6.4030507@drenet.info> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:32:54 -0500 From: Andre Goree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110707 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110814222708.2a06dc05.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110814222708.2a06dc05.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installing and using wine on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:32:56 -0000 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