wine-gecko2.40 package from the ppa is x64 only

[Benjamin Gemmill]

Using Trusty with the wine stable ppa:
ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

apt-get installing wine-gecko2.40 will install only the x64 binaries; we can see this in the directory where the .msi files go:
$ ll /usr/share/wine/gecko/ | grep 2.40
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 33056768 Aug 25 07:36 wine_gecko-2.40-x86_64.msi

Note that this happens even if the following is set before attempting the install.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

While this can be fixed with the following two post-install steps, it's a bit of a kludge:
$ sudo wget http://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.40//wine_gecko-2.40-x86.msi
$ sudo mv wine_gecko-2.40-x86.msi /usr/share/wine/gecko/

Unless there's a better command to run to install both like how g++-multilib does it, this seems like an omission.

Thanks a lot for your time.

[Nathan Rennie-Waldock (nathan-renniewaldock)]

You can specifically install the x86 package alongside with: apt-get install wine-gecko2.40:i386

[Benjamin Gemmill (benjamin-gemmill)]

Thanks for the workaround, although this still means that the following line didn't have an effect on this package:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

What's interesting is that the wine-mono package does work correctly.