Advice on changing to 64 bits

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Feb 15 20:55:27 UTC 2009


Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> I'll give Fedora i86_64 a try. I want to run a Linux host (with a guest
> from the dark side of the moon), and hopefully, even wine could be
> installed on a 64 bit system if the docs on winehq.org tell the truth.

Yes, you can run 32-bit WINE on a 64-bit OS. (It has to be 32-bit WINE as
64-bit WINE cannot run W32 applications, only W64 ones, and is still
experimental and not available in Fedora yet. If you just "yum install
wine" on Fedora x86_64, you'll get the 32-bit version.)

        Kevin Kofler




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