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?
2 Answers
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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1If 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)– laurentJun 25, 2013 at 23:17 -
2@laurent dotnet2.0 is failing to install. It keeps asking if I want to send the report to Microsoft.– KI4JGTDec 16, 2013 at 4:06
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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2Rather 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