Comment 13 for bug 2000832

As I wrote before, I tried all of the solutions posted to install wine32 in neon. The final block was the libpoppler library.

While researching the installation problem I came across a post by the lead developer of KDE neon, jridelle (sp?) in which he said that wine32 will never be added to neon because modifying the libpoppler library is too complicated and would require huge modifications to neon, and other reasons. IIRC, the post was on reddit, but my astonishment was so great I failed to bookmark the link.

So, since I need wine32 to run EKG software for my wife's heart condition I have opted to move back to Kubuntu. If one doesn't need wine32 then neon is still an awesome "distro".

PS:
Here is Jonathon Riddell statement about wine32 in neon:

" Re: I cannot install Wine staging on Jammy-rebased KDE Neon
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=176375#p458746

Tue Nov 01, 2022 4:38 pm
Yes I'm afraid our poppler build makes the neon archive incompatible with the wine-staging packages at least on i386. There's no easy way around this unfortunately and it's not a priority for Neon to be compatible with non-KDE software. "