Sorry, ¿wine or winehq ?

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Sorry, ¿wine or winehq ?

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sorry for the question, but what is the difference between wine and winehq? if there is any?

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Re: Sorry, ¿wine or winehq ?

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If you're referring to the packages available from winehq.org, the wine-stable or -devel or -staging packages install under /opt and any or all of them can be installed at the same time. The winehq- package installs symlinks under /usr/bin to make whichever version the "default", so it will run if you just type "wine" in a terminal (otherwise you have to specify the path, like /opt/wine-devel/bin/wine).
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Re: Sorry, ¿wine or winehq ?

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OK, thanks.. I didn't know if winehq had to be installed as well.
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