64bit Applications on wine

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Hi,
I was trying to run LTSpice after the Leap 15.6 to 16 upgrade and runing wine as usual I got an error:

wine is a 32-bit installation, it cannot support 64-bit applications.

Searching online it appears that one needs a 64 bit environment on wine to rn those applications.
So what I did in the case of LTSpice was the recommended creation of a wine64 new folder and environment.
Following:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/can%27t-get-wine-to-run-64-bit-exe-programs-946846/#post4687530

the way to the issue is simply:

WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=/home/yourusername/.wine64 winecfg

This creates a new ~/.win64 directory with all the required environment.

I then simply Copied the .wine normal directory of the previously installed Software.

~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/LTspiceXVII

into the same Folder on the newly created ~/.wine64 directory
that is into

~/.wine64/drive_c/Program Files/LTspiceXVII

And then to run the program one must Always have the exact same environment to win64. so now LTSpice runs with:

WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=/home/yourusername/.wine64 wine64 ./XVIIx86.exe

this can of course be done with a plasma application launcher.
While making the link to application from say dolphin on the field Environment Variables one must place:

WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=/home/yourusername/.wine64

And that’s about it.

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Someone else had the same issue - fairly recent Thread:

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Should be the same problem actually. the same solution will apply.

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there is an error on the line above.

it should call wine as usual. the correct run command on cli is :

WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=/home/yourusername/.wine64 wine ./XVIIx86.exe