Announcing the Release of Wordfast Pro 3.1 | Wordfast with wine on Debian 64bit?

Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Announcing the Release of Wordfast Pro 3.1
Poster: Anthony Baldwin
Post title: Wordfast with wine on Debian 64bit?

[quote]sanctacaris wrote:

64-bit Linux sports a 64-bit Java VM, whereas Windows 7 provides only 32-bit Java, even if Windows itself is 64-bit. I know this because I am a Linux 64-bit user myself, and my workaround is to run WF on Windows in a VirtualBox, or alternatively to use the WINE emulator, which also provides 32-bit Java!
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How are you getting this to work?

I'm trying now on Debian 7, AMD64, and it "runs", but I get a blank window. I had to install the 32bit wine, because 64bit would not run it.

The installer ran fine, and when I start it, I see the splash screen, but then WFP just basically greys out the screen.

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It might also help the adaptation of WF if there were Debian and Red Hat packages prepared and submitted to the appropriate repositories (Ubuntu, at least, comprises one repository for closed-source software).[/quote]

Yeah, this will never be in an official Debian repo, of course.