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I have a speed-reading program I purchased with uses dotnet2. However, dotnet2 doesn't run on 64 bit wine. How would I install dotnet2?

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You can have multiple wine prefix on your machine, each running as a separate wine. So you can make a 32 bits prefix and install dotnet2 in it:

This will create a new wineprefix (.wine32 in your home) and configure it as 32 bits:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg

You can use it this way combined with winetricks to configure WINEARCH, create the prefix and install dotnet 2.0 in one command:

env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winetricks dotnet20

or only:

env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winetricks dotnet20

if you already set the WINEARCH and created the WINEPREFIX with the 1st command above.

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    Thanks. . . How would you install the program to that prefix?
    – KI4JGT
    Dec 26, 2012 at 4:19
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    WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine setupprogram.exe
    – laurent
    Dec 26, 2012 at 4:47
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    @laurent how do you uninstall programs in that prefix?
    – jaorizabal
    Jun 25, 2013 at 22:58
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    If the program has an uninstall, you can run it the same way. If not... you can remove the directory (or the files) where your program is installed (~/.wine32/drive_c/Program Files/your_program or something similar)
    – laurent
    Jun 25, 2013 at 23:17
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    @laurent dotnet2.0 is failing to install. It keeps asking if I want to send the report to Microsoft.
    – KI4JGT
    Dec 16, 2013 at 4:06
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just to make it more straightforward to use wine in 32bit mode. Create a file in ~/bin/wine32 with the following content

env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine $*

Make the file executable to launch wine in 32bit mode using

wine32 my_exe_file_that_needs_32bit.exe

Hope that helps :-)

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    Rather than making a script in ~/bin (which I think is a security problem anyway), you could make a bash alias in ~/.bashrc. Just take the same line from the script and put it in a line in .bashrc like this: alias wine32='env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine $*' May 18, 2015 at 16:57

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