From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 09:46:22 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BAA57817 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.vlymskerp.net (mail.vlymskerp.net [197.189.214.107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E0B9FC for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.vlymskerp.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vlymskerp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B7FD338B; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:23:46 +0200 (SAST) Received: from penguin.cerberia (penguin.vlymskerp.vpn [10.8.0.14]) by mail.vlymskerp.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4F21DD3388; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:23:46 +0200 (SAST) From: Coert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bob Willcox Subject: Re: Installing/running wine on amd64 system Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:46:19 +0200 Message-ID: <19520221.uAyzs4m49L@penguin.cerberia> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.2 (FreeBSD/10.1-RELEASE-p5; KDE/4.14.2; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150224232534.GB64649@rancor.immure.com> References: <20150224232534.GB64649@rancor.immure.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:46:22 -0000 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