Wine 1.4 on Ubuntu

[hereiam]

Hi there,

I tried to install latest Wine version 1.4 on Ubuntu 10.04. But the problem is that I can not find the stable 1.4.0 release. In Synaptic I only can find 1.4.0 rc6.

Will this be fixed?

[dimesio]

Hi there,

I tried to install latest Wine version 1.4 on Ubuntu 10.04. But the problem is that I can not find the stable 1.4.0 release. In Synaptic I only can find 1.4.0 rc6.

Will this be fixed?

Packages are built by the distros; ask your distro package maintainer.

[thomasmbrooks]

FWIW, I just installed wine into my Ubuntu 10.04 box. The package manager says 1.3 is the latest, but when I execute

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wine --version

the system responds

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wine 1.4

I can't say if this solves your problem or not. Personally, I find it obnoxious that program version levels cannot be more consistent, but it is possible that Ubuntu really does give you the latest stable version. YMMV

[dimesio]

Personally, I find it obnoxious that program version levels cannot be more consistent, but it is possible that Ubuntu really does give you the latest stable version. YMMV

Ubuntu has a history of giving misleading names to its Wine packages. There's nothing we can do about it; packages are built by the distros. The person to complain to is the Ubuntu package maintainer.

[thomasmbrooks]

I was not complaining, at least not to anyone here. I was trying to offer some assistance to the original poster in determining if he has the correct version of Wine or not.

Complaints to Canonical are certainly appropriate, but I doubt Canonical is going to change anything just because I complain about it. Thus I'm back to having what I have and needing whatever help people can offer to help me make the best of it. There are answers available, for example the bare fact that what the package manager says is 1.3 is actually 1.4 (unless of course the wine --version command is lying to me.)

With respect, a little more HELP and a little less nit-pickiness about a post would be more helpful, at least IMHO. YMMV

[jjmckenzie]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:09 AM, thomasmbrooks
<[email protected]> wrote:

I was not complaining, at least not to anyone here. I was trying to offer some assistance to the original poster
in determining if he has the correct version of Wine or not.

That was already handled.

Complaints to Canonical are certainly appropriate, but I doubt Canonical is going to change anything just
because I complain about  it. Thus I'm back to having what I have and needing whatever help people can offer to
help me make the best of it. There are answers available, for example the bare fact that what the package
manager says is 1.3 is actually 1.4 (unless of course the wine --version command is lying to me.)

If many people complain, it will get fixed (maybe), if no one
complains it will not get fixed. And advising the Wine project will
not get it fixed. So, one message to Canonical becomes many and the
package distribution gets updated, no messages and it stays the way it
is. The issue is not the Wine project's to fix.

James

[thomasmbrooks]

If many people complain, it will get fixed (maybe), if no one
complains it will not get fixed. And advising the Wine project will
not get it fixed. So, one message to Canonical becomes many and the
package distribution gets updated, no messages and it stays the way it
is. The issue is not the Wine project's to fix.

James

Absolutely true. Question? The next time you have a problem with Ubuntu, do you submit the complaint and then wait for Canonical to fix it? Or do you try to find a way around it the issue and keep going? Personally, I do both simultaneously.

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 16:09, thomasmbrooks <[email protected]> wrote:

I was not complaining, at least not to anyone here. I was trying to offer some assistance to the original poster in determining if he has the correct version of Wine or not.

Complaints to Canonical are certainly appropriate, but I doubt Canonical is going to change anything just because I complain about  it. Thus I'm back to having what I have and needing whatever help people can offer to help me make the best of it. There are answers available, for example the bare fact that what the package manager says is 1.3 is actually 1.4 (unless of course the wine --version command is lying to me.)

With respect, a little more HELP and a little less nit-pickiness about a post would be more helpful, at least IMHO. YMMV

I talked with the ubuntu wine packager, and it amounts to this:

"Currently:
wine1.4 and wine1.5 are available on 12.04, and they behave as you'd
expect. wine1.5 is only there if you enable the Wine PPA.

On 12.04 wine1.3 and wine1.2 are transitional dummy packages that
give you wine1.4. Wine1.5 must be explicitly installed.

Sometime next week:
11.10 will have wine1.5 and wine1.4 similar to 12.04. 11.04, 10.10,
and 10.04 will have wine1.4 only. The dummy/transitional wine1.2 and
wine1.3 packages will be done for them as well."

Should be hopefully clear enough.
In the meantime, interested/desperate people can always compile wine themselves.

Frédéric

[smithjhon]

Thanks you for your usefull Post......

[adamvietnam]

So is it the case that there won't be a 1.5 binary for 10.04?

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 20:00, adamvietnam <[email protected]> wrote:

So is it the case that there won't be a 1.5 binary for 10.04?

Looks like it ("and 10.04 will have wine1.4 only"), although you can
always compile wine yourself (or you/someone else volunteers to
maintain packages for 10.04)