Hi all,
just burned *a lot* of time making Wine (Staging) for 64 and **32 bit** work on Ubuntu 20.04 (Ubuntu 22.04 was a little less painful) as part of a Github action of mine.
The official documentation that is very commonly referred / pointed to ("if it does not work, you did not follow the instructions there to the letter") ...
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
... misses a few, apparently constantly shifting details on the 32 bit side of things. The "authoritative resource" on this topic appears to be this lovely long Github issue ...
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589
... which thankfully also provides up-to-date workarounds (with rather significant side-effects), like the following as of July 26:
```bash sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-prod.list sudo apt-get update -qq sudo apt-get install -yqq --allow-downgrades libgd3/focal libpcre2-8-0/focal libpcre2-16-0/focal libpcre2-32-0/focal libpcre2-posix2/focal sudo apt-get purge -yqq libmono* moby* mono* php* libgdiplus libpcre2-posix3 libzip4 ```
See, in the following order:
- https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-980506595 - https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-1100899313 - https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-1123074635 - https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-1194891446
I am not sure if (or how) this belongs into your wiki (of if it can even be fixed / worked around partially within the dependencies of the packages from WineHQ's PPA). But since the above mentioned Github issue is not easy to find between a lot of other related but less helpful "noise" in online search results (and takes a while to comprehend), it might warrant creating a central, well known place that documents this behaviour in an up-to-date manner.
Either way, in all honesty, thx to everybody who keeps 32 bit support running. For better or for worse, it is still badly needed.
Best regards, Sebastian
On woensdag 07 september 2022 19:18:19 (+02:00), Sebastian M. Ernst wrote:
Hi all,
just burned *a lot* of time making Wine (Staging) for 64 and **32 bit**
work on Ubuntu 20.04 (Ubuntu 22.04 was a little less painful) as part of a Github action of mine.
The official documentation that is very commonly referred / pointed to
("if it does not work, you did not follow the instructions there to the letter") ...
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
... misses a few, apparently constantly shifting details on the 32 bit
side of things. The "authoritative resource" on this topic appears to be this lovely long Github issue ...
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589
... which thankfully also provides up-to-date workarounds (with rather
significant side-effects), like the following as of July 26:
sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-prod.list sudo apt-get update -qq sudo apt-get install -yqq --allow-downgrades libgd3/focal
libpcre2-8-0/focal libpcre2-16-0/focal libpcre2-32-0/focal libpcre2-posix2/focal
sudo apt-get purge -yqq libmono* moby* mono* php* libgdiplus
libpcre2-posix3 libzip4
See, in the following order: -
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-980506595
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-1100899313
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-1123074635
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-1194891446
I am not sure if (or how) this belongs into your wiki (of if it can even
be fixed / worked around partially within the dependencies of the packages from WineHQ's PPA). But since the above mentioned Github issue is not easy to find between a lot of other related but less helpful "noise" in online search results (and takes a while to comprehend), it might warrant creating a central, well known place that documents this behaviour in an up-to-date manner.
Either way, in all honesty, thx to everybody who keeps 32 bit support
running. For better or for worse, it is still badly needed.
Best regards, Sebastian
The WineHQ packages are created for a standard Ubuntu installation. The fact that a user also uses third-party PPAs is not supported. The deb.sury.org PPA is also often mentioned on the WineHQ forum as causing problems because it is not multiarch.
While this is noted on the WineHQ Wiki [1], if I understand you correctly, this explanation could be more specific/ detailed. If you have any ideas on how to improve this text please post them on the forum [2].
Cheers, Floris
[1] https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#How_do_I_solve_dependency_errors_when_trying_to_...
On 07.09.2022 23:59, Floris Renaud wrote:
On woensdag 07 september 2022 19:18:19 (+02:00), Sebastian M. Ernst wrote:
Hi all,
just burned *a lot* of time making Wine (Staging) for 64 and **32
bit** work on Ubuntu 20.04 (Ubuntu 22.04 was a little less painful) as part of a Github action of mine.
The official documentation that is very commonly referred / pointed
to ("if it does not work, you did not follow the instructions there to the letter") ...
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
... misses a few, apparently constantly shifting details on the 32
bit side of things. The "authoritative resource" on this topic appears to be this lovely long Github issue ...
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589
... which thankfully also provides up-to-date workarounds (with
rather significant side-effects), like the following as of July 26:
sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-prod.list sudo apt-get update -qq sudo apt-get install -yqq --allow-downgrades libgd3/focallibpcre2-8-0/focal libpcre2-16-0/focal libpcre2-32-0/focal libpcre2-posix2/focal
sudo apt-get purge -yqq libmono* moby* mono* php* libgdiplus
libpcre2-posix3 libzip4
See, in the following order: -https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-980506595
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-1100899313
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-1123074635
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4589#issuecomment-1194891446
I am not sure if (or how) this belongs into your wiki (of if it can
even be fixed / worked around partially within the dependencies of the packages from WineHQ's PPA). But since the above mentioned Github issue is not easy to find between a lot of other related but less helpful "noise" in online search results (and takes a while to comprehend), it might warrant creating a central, well known place that documents this behaviour in an up-to-date manner.
Either way, in all honesty, thx to everybody who keeps 32 bit
support running. For better or for worse, it is still badly needed.
Best regards, Sebastian
The WineHQ packages are created for a standard Ubuntu installation. The fact that a user also uses third-party PPAs is not supported. The deb.sury.org PPA is also often mentioned on the WineHQ forum as causing problems because it is not multiarch.
While this is noted on the WineHQ Wiki [1], if I understand you correctly, this explanation could be more specific/ detailed. If you have any ideas on how to improve this text please post them on the forum [2].
Cheers, Floris
[1] https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#How_do_I_solve_dependency_errors_when_trying_to_...
It is probably not too easy to install 32-bit version of wine(-staging) in any reasonable way for 32-bit version of Ubuntu using distro provided packages. Afaik there is a few lib's and packages not really being built as "pure" 32-bit for Ubuntu, so if the wiki page starts to mention various "hacks" for forcing/downgrade of packages you always end up with the risk of people in some sort of desperation stumbling onto the wiki page, not reading or understanding everything, then starts to run various apt commands and completely break their system. Personally i kind of feel this is not a "safe" approach. Not saying you recommend this, but "apt -yqq" kind of sais "answer yes - and do it quietly" to whatever apt package you install. Absolutely NOT safe, as you might end up with "this will remove 83747 packages from your system" without you seeing a message, and automagically answer "Yes, please do!" to it.
Sad state of affairs for Ubuntu/Debian?.. yes... WineHQ's problem? Not really, as they provide a working distro installable package(s), and it is not "their" issue to fix distro quirks. Debian experimental has just recently been building wine-7.0 package, and this may or may not trickle down to Ubuntu 22.04 (certainly not 20.04 tho). They (debian wine team) do not build staging and i think there was some consensus about not building development packages as it was way too much work and problems keeping that up to date. This may change in the future tho.
Just my thoughts
Sveinar
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