exagear-rpi

installing Exagear Desktop on the newer Raspberry Pies

thanks to this guide.

Exagear Desktop is a discontinued piece of software that could be used to emulate x86 applications on ARM devices.

Installation Steps

First install prerequisites with apt

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y bash coreutils findutils curl binfmt-support cron

Create a new directory (to download the packages and key)

mkdir ~/exagear
cd ~/exagear

Download and install required Exagear packages (follow the instructions for your bitness)

# 32-bit
wget https://archive.org/download/exagear-desktop_202111/exagear_3428-1_armhf.deb
wget https://archive.org/download/exagear-desktop_202111/exagear-dsound-server_010_armhf.deb
wget https://archive.org/download/exagear-desktop_202111/exagear-guest-debian-9_3428_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i exagear_3428-1_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i exagear-dsound-server_010_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i exagear-guest-debian-9_3428_all.deb

# 64-bit
wget https://archive.org/download/exagear-desktop_202111/exagear_3428-1_arm64.deb
wget https://archive.org/download/exagear-desktop_202111/exagear-dsound-server_010_arm64.deb
wget https://archive.org/download/exagear-desktop_202111/exagear-guest-debian-9_3428_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i exagear_3428-1_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i exagear-dsound-server_010_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i exagear-guest-debian-9_3428_all.deb

Patch exagear license

wget https://archive.org/download/exagear-desktop_202111/patch.sh; sudo bash patch.sh

Run sudo nano /etc/sudoers, and change the @ in line 54 to # and reboot your system.

After reboot, run sudo exagear, and you're in an x86 environment!

Once inside the environment, run rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* and then nano /etc/apt/sources.list.

Then replace the contents of the file with:

deb [trusted=yes] http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb-src [trusted=yes] http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main

Next, update the time with nano /etc/sudoers.d/010_global-tty and replace the contents of that file with: Defaults passwd_timeout=0.

Lastly, update and get wine:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine winbind -y