Running Windows apps on PBP

[moonwalkers]

Not much of a tutorial, but...
If you're running Debian (or something Debian-based like Ubuntu) running 32-bit Windows applications is pretty easy, though performance obviously is not the best. There is no need for chroot, no complications. Simply...

• add i386 as a foreign arch (and update APT repositories afterwards):
  
  Code:

  dpkg --add-architecture i386
  
  

• install the following packages:
  
  Code:

  wine wine32:i386 qemu-user qemu-user-binfmt
  
  

Now, I haven't been able to get Windows binaries execute by installing wine-binfmt the way I've been able to do that on amd64, but simply doing

Code:

wine <app>.exe

works well enough for me, allowing to run some not too resource-hungry applications that don't have suitable Linux replacements like Calculators 3000