Oh well, sometimes I think I might be getting older. Remembering my childhood (yes, it was even before my youth) I spent loads of hours on my Commodore 64 and most of that time was gaming. Nowadays I enjoy an occasional session in the really great emulation software Vice, playing my favourite games from back then.¹⁾

Unfortunately, Vice won't run in Wheezy on amd64 systems that actually have an AMD processor due to this bug. Vice will just exit with signal 4 and that's about it. Note that this bug no longer affects Jessie!

As a workaround you can install the 32 bit version of Vice, since Debian Wheezy features full multi-arch compatibility. To do so, just follow these steps.

1. Check if your system already supports the i386 architecture:

   dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

2. If not, add the i386 architecture:

   dpkg --add-architecture i386

3. Run an update:

   apt-get update

4. Install the 32 bit version of Vice:

   apt-get install vice:i386

5. Finally, follow the normal steps to get Vice running: download²⁾ the ROMs³⁾ and copy them to

   /usr/lib/vice/<system>/

Enjoy!