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I have Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit installed. I installed wine from PPA 1.7.28 64 bit. How can I have a second instance of Wine in 32-bit? How can I launch some programs only in 32-bit?

I won't delete my 64-bit version of wine, because some games run better on with the 64-bit version. But I need a 32-bit version for Photoshop.

MadMike
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    You can install 32 bit version of photoshop in 64bit wine. Are you getting any error. You will only get error when you are installing a 64bit application in 32bit operating system or wine. – smali Oct 16 '14 at 11:02
  • I can't install photoshop on 64 bit because of msxml6 (it works only on 32bit mode) – Alexander Kim Oct 16 '14 at 11:30

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I solved it by following these steps:

  1. My 64-bit wine configuration is located under the directory /home/username/.wine/

  2. Add a 32-bit wine configuration:

    WINEPREFIX='/home/username/.wine32' WINEARCH='win32' wine 'wineboot'

  3. Add a alias in ~/.bashrc:

    alias wine32="WINEPREFIX='/home/username/.wine32'"

Now you can use both 32-bit and 64-bit version of wine. In order to use the 64-bit version, just do as you usually did:

wine Program.exe

But in order to use 32-bit version it's a bit different. Call the alias like this:

wine32 wine Program.exe

I Hope this will be useful for other people.

MadMike
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If you want to use different versions of wine, I recommend PlayOnLinux. With this you can, not only install 32 bit and 64 bit wine, but also different versions of wine.

Install it with sudo apt-get install playonlinux or use Ubuntu Software Center.

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