[Wine] Cannot create 32bit wineprefix (Ubuntu package problem?)

[Christoph Korn]

Hello,

the problem is that I cannot create 32bit wineprefix.
In short this is all what happens (run directly in my $HOME directory):
korn at pc:~$ mkdir foo ; WINEPREFIX=$(pwd)/foo WINEARCH=win32 wineboot
wine: WINEARCH set to win32 but '/home/korn/foo' is a 64-bit installation.

As you see although the foo directory did not yet exist wineboot claims that 
there is a 64-bit installation.

After asking the question on #winehq I got some hints that maybe the Ubuntu 
installation of wine does not include the i386 parts.

I use the official Ubuntu wine ppa for my installation:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa

 From there I have these Wine packages installed:
$ dpkg -l | grep wine
ii  wine 
1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17    Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer 
(meta-package)
ii  wine-gecko1.5                          1.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1 
      Microsoft Windows compatibility layer (embedded web browser)
ii  wine-gecko1.5:i386                     1.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1 
      Microsoft Windows compatibility layer (embedded web browser)
ii  wine1.5 
1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17    Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer 
(Binary Emulator and Library)
ii  wine1.5-amd64 
1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17    Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer 
(64-bit support)
ii  wine1.5-i386:i386 
1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17    Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer 
(32-bit support)
ii  winetricks                             0.0+20120308 
      Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (winetricks)

These are the specific versions:
$ LANG=C apt-cache policy wine wine1.5 wine1.5-amd64 wine1.5-i386 winetricks
wine:
   Installed: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17
   Candidate: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17
   Version table:
  *** 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main 
amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      1.4-0ubuntu4 0
         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
wine1.5:
   Installed: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17
   Candidate: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17
   Version table:
  *** 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main 
amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
wine1.5-amd64:
   Installed: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17
   Candidate: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17
   Version table:
  *** 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main 
amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
wine1.5-i386:i386:
   Installed: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17
   Candidate: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17
   Version table:
  *** 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main 
i386 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
winetricks:
   Installed: 0.0+20120308
   Candidate: 0.0+20120308
   Version table:
  *** 0.0+20120308 0
         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      0.0+20120308~ppa1 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main 
amd64 Packages

As you see everything (except of winetricks) is installed from the PPA.

Does someone else using this repository does have this problem?
Please be sure that you have the wine1.5-i386 package installed.
My OS obviously is Ubuntu 12.04.

It is really easy to test please use my command above.

Thanks
Christoph