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I've installed winehq-staging package from winehq repo in debian 12 instead of from debian repo which I'll be using from Lutris.

After that I listed what got installed with:

aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?origin(dl.winehq.org))'

And this command printed out:

i A wine-staging                                   - WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs       
i A wine-staging-amd64                             - WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs       
i A wine-staging-i386:i386                         - WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs       
i   winehq-staging                                 - WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs

I'm having trouble understanding this output:

  1. What does the letter "A" mean in the output?
  2. What's the difference between winehq-staging and wine-staging
  3. Since there are x64 and x86 bit versions installed what do the other two mean? that is what exactly do 4 of these version mean and how are they used?
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  1. The “A” in the output means that the package was installed automatically (pulled in by another package). Essentially, if you removing winehq-staging, the other three packages will be removed too (immediately with aptitude, or the next time you run apt autoremove).

  2. wine-staging provides the WineHQ staging version of Wine; winehq-staging uses that to provide the main version of Wine, system-wide. (See the package descriptions.)

  3. winehq-staging depends on wine-staging, which depends on wine-staging-amd64 and wine-staging-i386. wine-staging-amd64 provides 64-bit Windows support, wine-staging-i386 provides 32-bit Windows support, wine-staging is a meta-package pulling in both of those.

In most cases winehq-staging (or the equivalent from another branch) is the appropriate package to install. Having split packages allows more complex setups with multiple versions installed in parallel. See the Wine wiki for details.

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