Wine problems

broozar

I am trying to install some Windows software on Solus using Wine. I know from a previous Linux Mint install that this Windows software works well with Wine. But on Solus, I am not able to install it becuase I get the following errors:

$ wine64 "/path/to/installer.exe"
/usr/bin/wine: could not open

There's an alternative msi installer, which gives the following additional error:
$wine64 "/path/to/installer.msi"
/usr/bin/wine: could not open
wine: Bad EXE format for D:\Folder\Installer.msi.

going with the 32bit version of wine, I have different issues:

double-clicking on the msi file gives me a message windows that says "failed to extract Dll_.ini" then, it quits
running my setup.exe from the terminal shows me the the "install shield wizard" loading bar, then it quits without any message

any suggestions?

DataDrake

You need to install wine-32bit. It's a 32-bit program and wine64 is trying to fall back to /usr/bin/wine which is 32-bit.

broozar

thank you. I first had win64 installed, then win-32bit, but I got the errors I mentioned. It only started working when I also removed the _/.wine folder and then run winecfg again. Solved.