Trouble installing Wine

[kalpana]

64bit Lubuntu 19.10 currently, but quite close to buying a new HDD and installing 20.04 so if there's a likelihood of a resolution just by upgrading, maybe not worth spending too much trouble over..

I was hoping to use Crucial's website to checkout my RAM.

Their scanner involves downloading an executable and running it on your system to determine your memory papameters.

They only provide a Windows executable as far as I can see.

So I thought, okay, I'll try Wine.

I found it in the Muon package manager under 'wine', and went ahead and marked it for installation and applied changes.

Couldn't see a shortcut in the system menu, so I tried going into a terminal

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me@me-pc:~$ wine
it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
       wine --help                   Display this help and exit
       wine --version                Output version information and exit
me@me-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install wine32
[sudo] password for me:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package wine32 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  libwine

E: Package 'wine32' has no installation candidate
me@me-pc:~$ wine32
wine32: command not found
me@me-pc:~$ wine64
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
       wine --help                   Display this help and exit
       wine --version                Output version information and exit
me@me-pc:~$ ls
crucial.exe  Desktop  Documents  Downloads  Music  notepad.exe  Pictures  Public  Templates  thunderbird  Videos
me@me-pc:~$ wine64 crucial.exe
it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"
wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\home\me\crucial.exe.
me@me-pc:~$ wine64 notepad.exe
it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"
wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\home\me\notepad.exe.
me@me-pc:~$ man -k wine64
wine64-stable (1)    - run Windows programs on Unix
me@me-pc:~$ man wine64
me@me-pc:~$

not quite sure where I'm going wrong.. tried a copy of windows xp's 'notepad.exe' besides the crucial.exe scanner but that seemed to fail as well..

Grateful for any suggestions, tia