Debian Wine Setup: command not found: wine64

[SteffenBlake]

Prerequisites

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MonoGame Version

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Which MonoGame platform are you using?

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Operating System

Debian 6.1.90-1

Description

Following the steps here:
https://docs.monogame.net/articles/getting_started/1_setting_up_your_development_environment_unix.html#optional-setup-wine-for-effect-compilation

After installing the packages, /usr/lib/wine/wine64 was created, yet it wasnt properly added to PATH properly.

Which in turn caused the script after to fail, as it could not resolve the executable wine64

command not found: wine64

adding the following to my ~/.*rc file for my shell resolved this issue, so we may want to add a note about this potential issue on the documentation (If someone links me to where that is maintained I can submit the tweak myself if needed)

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/wine

Steps to Reproduce

Follow the steps here:
https://docs.monogame.net/articles/getting_started/1_setting_up_your_development_environment_unix.html#optional-setup-wine-for-effect-compilation

On latest Debian distro

Minimal Example Repo

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Expected Behavior

Secondary script runs without error

Resulting Behavior

Wine64 is not on PATH, so the script cannot find it

Files

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[stromkos]

Please note that the docs are somewhat out of date and differences in Linux distributions are not easy to keep up with.

For modern versions of wine the PE type determines the 32-64 bit divide, so replacing wine64 with wine in the downloaded shell script should resolve the issue without polluting the PATH.

OR:

Create a link to the wine64 manually: (Requires root permissions)

ln -s /usr/lib/wine/wine64 /usr/bin/wine64

Your solution is best when root permissions are not available (after install):

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/wine

Or when installed into ~/usr/lib/wine

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There is no simple common solution for all possibilities.

[SteffenBlake]

I actually tried that first solution initially as a workaround, both actually proceed to fail with wine failing to find dotnet, it doesn't show up under system32 and you get some file not found errors from Wine.

The only solution that actually worked was truly using the proper wine64 executable for me, which was installed but just not added to PATH for some reason.

But for sure alternatively symlinking it to bin should be just as good of a solution as well!

[stromkos]

both actually proceed to fail with wine failing to find dotnet.

Interesting, my last experience required DotNet framework installed in the wine environment.

The instructions were written for Ubuntu not Debian, and made some assumptions.