debian: add Wine with proper 64-bit prefix initialization#36
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Install wine and wine32:i386 (with i386 multiarch enabled), then initialize a 64-bit Wine prefix via wineboot --init. Without explicit initialization, syswow64 is left empty and 32-bit installers fail with "could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135". Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
Install Wine on Debian with correct 64-bit prefix initialization so both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows apps work out of the box.
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dpkg --add-architecture i386)wineandwine32:i386WINEARCH=win64 wineboot --initWhy
Without explicit prefix initialization, the
syswow64directory is left empty. This causes 32-bit Windows installers (even those with "Win64" in the name) to fail with:Running
wineboot --initwithWINEARCH=win64creates a proper 64-bit prefix with WoW64 support, allowing both 32-bit and 64-bit apps to run.