Le 28/12/2025 à 05:43, Luiz Romário Santana Rios a écrit :
I was trying to execute a windows executable with wine. The terminal
output said I had a 64 bit wine installation and I needed to install
the 32 bit wine with the following command:
apt-get install wine32:i386
I was running it in the small dropdown terminal from Dolphin, so I
didn't see the whole output at once, but since this was (as I thought)
a normal operation, just installing a 32 bit version of wine alongside
the 64 bit version, I didn't think much of it and said yes. There were
no warnings besides the usual apt warnings.
Then I noticed a message pop up in the terminal talking about how
applications using phonon will remain with no sound and I just thought
that meant 32 bit applications will have no sound, so I said OK. After
that, I noticed a lot of stuff getting removed and leaving the system
in a broken state and I realized something was wrong. At the end of
it, the terminal disappeared and now many basic Plasma applications
are gone. I haven't closed any applications or logged off yet, so I
don't know the full extent of the damage, but that really got me by
surprise. I know you should always pay attention when running apt, so
this is kinda on me, but I really wouldn't expect a simple operation
like this would break the system, much less one explicitly recommended
by the system itself.
How do I walk back from this?
Hello,
You probably(?) there want to run a 32 bits Windows executable. You may
ask is there are not any viable alternatives (Windows 64 bits executables).
I have stopped using Wine long ago (I would rather install a virtual
Windows machine to run a Windows program) because often a Windows
program does not run with Wine.
And there is the problem of multiarchitecture when you enable i386
architecture, sometimes there are needed amd64 libraries that are
replaced by i386 ones, breaking the system.
So, feel fry to not comply with it :-) , but my advice would be to
uninstall all i386 parts, uninstall wine and disable i386 architecture
altogether with dpkg
