Hi.

Does anyone know of a working Wine 64bit for a Puppy Linux based on Ubuntu Bionic Beaver?

I had tested a few from the Wine developer of the murga-forum, but they didn't work. I tested several versions from 3.15 up to 4.12. None worked.

Message: "The explorer process failed to start".

It also complained about a missing libgcc_s.so.1 not being installed. It is installed, though!

Right. The libs lesson:
Wine works by translating windows dll syscalls to posix ones, so the linux libs are used instead of the windows ones. This makes wine more difficult to develop, but faster than a vm. Wine is now very good, but the vast majority of windows software still is 32bit or has 32bit elements.

I have a wine 64bit installed in Mint (probably from Ubuntu, because Mint is only a change of clothes for Ubuntu). It runs basically nothing I want to run.

I also have Slackware64 as my main system, and had added ~300MB of 32bit libs, making it a Multilib system. Slackware stores 32bit libs in /lib & /usr/lib and 64 bit ones in /lib64 & /usr/lib64. So I can have /lib/ld-lsb.so(32bit) & /lib64/ld.lsb.so(64bit). Compiling wine for slackware is done following the procedure on the winehq site for a 32/64 bit wine.

Most systems use /usr/lib for 32 & 64 bit libs, and you can't do much there. If they even use /usr/lib/32 or /usr/lib32 you might make it through. It's very probable your system wants libgcc.so.1 in 32 bit and you have only 64 bit, or it may be the other way around.

Find out your way out of that mess in Puppy, or change distro - that's my advice. Alternatively, give up on wine.

You made my day!

I didn't laugh that much for weeks when I read your ADVICE.

No, this is NOT really an option, since I'm using the best Operating System ever used!

Of course I will give up on Wine. Just have been curious if I would get a program to work in Wine. It was a 64bit version of PhotoLine which I liked to use when I was a Windows user long, long time ago. Being a regular and daily Puppy Linux user since 2012 - and I'm never ever going to change this as long as there will be Puppies coming up!

Though, it's not necessary for me to use Wine in any manner.

Thanks for the ADVICE!

I'm glad You enjoyed the advice. Mark this solved then.

You can hunt around for 32/64 bit stuff with searches like or of course '64' for 64bit. Same for dlls. Here's the output from a 32 bit thing I have installed.