How to see exact version of wine

[UlfZibis]

Hi,

with

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wine --version
wine-1.8

I do not know if I have wine 1.8.0 or 1.8.1.

[dimesio]

You have 1.8. There was no 1.8.0.

[UlfZibis]

You have 1.8. There was no 1.8.0.

Here I see, that both versions exist:
https://www.winehq.org/news/
https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.8.1
I have installed Wine from here:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+arc ... lter=vivid
There I see Version 1:1.8.0-0ubuntu1.
It seems, that the current stable version 1.8.1 has not yet landed there to install via PPA. Am I correct?
So to get 1.8.1, automatically from there, should I have to wait some days?
And then I should get:
wine --version
wine-1.8.1

[dimesio]

Ubuntu has a long history of giving its Wine packages names that do not accurately reflect the Wine version. If you look at the release notes, they say 1.8, not 1.8.0. Whatever wine --version returns is the actual Wine version you have.

As to whether or when Ubuntu will package 1.8.1, ask them. WineHQ doesn't package the stable releases.