Currently I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 64 Bit on my laptop and I want to install some Windows programs with Wine (Dreamweaver CS5/Starcraft II etc) but these programs require the 32Bit version of Wine to work even being in a 64Bit environment… I'm a Fedora user most of the time and in that distro installing 32Bit versions of apps inside of a 64Bit system is never a problem, but didn't find a way to do that on Ubuntu.
Ubuntu – How to install 32 Bit Wine on 64 Bit Ubuntu
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Things have changed a few times since my original answer. 64bit prefixes versions of Wine are pretty capable these days. I haven't had a pure 32bit version in at least a few years.
Your "Wine prefix" (traditionally at
~/.wine/
, but settable via envWINEPREFIX
) controls how things will be run for the lifetime of that prefix. If you set up a 32bit prefix, everything will run in 32bit mode in that prefix. Conversely, if you don't do anything and run anything special, you'll create a Wine64 environment.If you're starting a new prefix (ie on a new install of Ubuntu), you'll need to do a few special things:
And that's it. Unless you're specifying another prefix that doesn't exist yet, you shouldn't need to set
WINEARCH
again.The revision history to this answer holds additional information that I don't think is relevant in 2018. This is mostly point and shoot these days.