Hello,
I installed wine 1.5.5 manually by downloading the deb files and running gdebi on them through the terminal. This worked for a while however I need to update to a version of wine over 1.7.8. I downloaded the deb files for wine version 1.7.11; those files being wine64-unstable, wine64-dev-tools, libwine-dev-unstable and libwine-unstable. All of these files are for an amd64 cpu. When I attempt to run gdebi on the wine64 file it gives the error warning: not replacing /usr/bin/wine with a link. It also gives that error for other files; msiexec, regedit, wineboot, etc.
If I attempt to run gdebi on the lib wine says that it breaks existing package 'libwine-alsa-unstable' dependency libwine-unstable (= 1.5.5-0.1).
Both errors I assume to be due to the existing wine version being installed.
So my question is how do I remove the current wine so that I may install the updated version, or is there a better way to update wine perhaps? apt-get remove wine does not work as it says wine is not installed - likely because I did not use apt-get to install it. I should note, in-case it is relevant, that my distro is Debian GNU/Linux 7.1 (wheezy).
How do I update a manual installation of Wine?
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Re: How do I update a manual installation of Wine?
After further research I found that you can uninstall wine by using synaptic manager by going to the status section or by using dkpg -r, the latter only works if you know the exact packages that you installed.
Humorously it turns out that 1.7.11 doesn't work on wheezy so there was no real point.
Humorously it turns out that 1.7.11 doesn't work on wheezy so there was no real point.