Installing wine on 6.0 RC

[paul thodiyil]

Many thanks Roland .. Great help. I will try your suggestions. I had
installed the AMD 64 version of FreeBSD on my AMD64 CPU - I will try the
i386 version.
 PT

 On 11/4/05, RW <list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 03 November 2005 14:29, paul thodiyil wrote:
> > On 11/4/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 11/3/05, paul thodiyil <pthodiyil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am
> having
> > >
> > > great
> > >
> > > > trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64
> desktop
> > > > running FreeBSD ver 6.0. I had added this package during the
> > >
> > > installation
> > >
> > > > process.
> > > > With the 'whereis wine' command, I get: /usr/ports/emulators/wine
> > > > Then when I type pkg_add wine, I get 'can't stat package file wine'
> > > > Could someone tell me what I could be doing wrong?
> > > > Paul
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> > > Wine does not run on anything but x86 yet. Sorry.
>
> > Many thanks. Saves me a lot of sweat.
>
> Are you aware that an amd 64 processor can run either the AMD64 or i386
> versions of FreeBSD? Wine will run on the the later.
>
> It wasn't clear to me whether "on my AMD64 desktop" referred to the OS or
> the
> CPU. If you have installed the AMD64 version of the OS then I would advise
> you to consider replacing it with the I386 version, which has fewer rough
> edges.
>
>
> The actual problem you report will happen on *any* system:
>
> # pkg_add wine
> pkg_add: can't stat package file 'wine'
>
> The correct usage is either
>
> pkg_add -r wine #install a wine package from a server
>
> or something like:
>
> pkg_add wine-20050930.tbz #install this particular local file
>