Winetricks not working

[Hypnotizing]

Hi everyone
I've been trying to get Hearthstone to work, so after installing wine and tinkering for a while i end up using wine tricks, following a tutorial i came around this part:

Now, you will be using 32bit WINE libraries and software versions, so you should prepare all your future runs from terminal for it:

cat >> ~/.bashrc
export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32

Press [CTRL+D] after pasting these 3 lines into terminal, to end adding lines to .bashrc .

After doing this i can no longer access winetricks with the ./winetricks and sh winetricks command , this error comes up :

cannot access '/home/alan/.wine32/drive_c': No such file or directory
grep: /home/alan/.wine32/*.reg: No such file or directory
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WINEPREFIX INFO:
Drive C:

Registry info:
/home/alan/.wine32/*.reg:
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/usr/bin/wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string, error messexport', it must be either win32 or win64." n32

i just installed linux so i'm in the dark with pretty much everything, is there a way to fix the access to winetricks? , it worked fine until i put that first command

[Flemur]

Hi everyone
I've been trying to get Hearthstone to work, so after installing wine and tinkering for a while i end up using wine tricks, following a tutorial i came around this part:

Now, you will be using 32bit WINE libraries and software versions, so you should prepare all your future runs from terminal for it:
cat >> ~/.bashrc
export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32
Press [CTRL+D] after pasting these 3 lines into terminal, to end adding lines to .bashrc .

That sounds like some bad advice - it added those two lines to the end of the .bashrc file, and normally the wine "prefix" is just ~/.wine not ~/.wine32

Why did you do that stuff? It's definitely not necessary in order to run winetricks, or anything else.

i just installed linux so i'm in the dark with pretty much everything, is there a way to fix the access to winetricks? , it worked fine until i put that first command

Edit your .bashrc file and remove those two lines. Logout/in or reboot, and try again.
Edit: also do this:

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rm -r ~/.wine32

Edit

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$ which winetricks
/usr/bin/winetricks

Running ./winetricks shouldn't work unless you're in /usr/bin directory.

See here for info about Hearthstone:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=30038

[Hypnotizing]

Thank you, there were about 6 or 7 lines at the end of the .bashrc file, all loking like this:
WINEARCH=win32
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32

After deleting those, sh winetricks works again!, i have one more doubt tough.

I want to install internet explorer 8, but the following error pops up:

This package (ie8) does not work on a 64-bit installation. You must use a prefix made with WINEARCH=win32

How do i fix that?

[Flemur]

This package (ie8) does not work on a 64-bit installation. You must use a prefix made with WINEARCH=win32
How do i fix that?

You need to delete your current ~/.wine directory and make a new one.

See here
https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#How_do_I_cr ... _system.3F

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rm -r ~/.wine
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg 

https://askubuntu.com/questions/177192/ ... ine-prefix
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WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine wineboot

I've used 'winecfg' but not wineboot...