There also exists an environment variable known as WINEARCH which represents the mode of your current wine settings, i.e.By default this folder resides in your home (~) directory by the name '.wine'. The folder in which all your wine software are installed is known as your WINEPREFIX.After a lot of searching, this is what I came across: It won't run in a 64-bit wine configuration. I just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit and was trying to get Office 2007 to work. This is mostly point and shoot these days. The revision history to this answer holds additional information that I don't think is relevant in 2018. Unless you're specifying another prefix that doesn't exist yet, you shouldn't need to set WINEARCH again. # You could rm -rf it if you don't want it.Īnd that's it.
If you're starting a new prefix (ie on a new install of Ubuntu), you'll need to do a few special things: # Move the old prefix (if one exists) Conversely, if you don't do anything and run anything special, you'll create a Wine64 environment. If you set up a 32bit prefix, everything will run in 32bit mode in that prefix. Your 'Wine prefix' (traditionally at ~/.wine/, but settable via env WINEPREFIX) controls how things will be run for the lifetime of that prefix. I haven't had a pure 32bit version in at least a few years. 64bit prefixes versions of Wine are pretty capable these days.
Things have changed a few times since my original answer.
