Zoom Edit & share stopped working

[vector]

Hi All,
I thin the last time I used this app was a few weeks ago so I am not sure what has changed since as far as Ubuntu updates.
But Zoom is no longer working. No errors come up I just get the hour glass for a moment and then nothing.

Ive tried uninstalling zoom v5 and re installing.

About reports wine is 1.6.2

any ideas what I should try. I dont recall any configuration or fiddles when I first installed it last year some time, its just always worked.

[dimesio]

Start by upgrading Wine; 1.6.2 is over two years old and no longer supported. https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

[vector]

Ok checked the repository info and it was old, Which would explain why wine wasn't updating.
un installed wine

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

On starting wine configure, nothing happened, I tried winetricks which then asked me to install some other apps like Gecko.

Eventually wine configure was able to run.
I installed zoom edit share

then ran it...
a default wine desktop comes up
the Zoom v5 front dialog window came up then disappears replaced by a processing bar which completes, then nothing else happens.

Any other suggestions?

Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit

[vector]

un installed Zoom then wine
then re installed
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

then ran zoomsetup.exe

after hitting Zoomshortcut

Zoom front dialog screen came up then disappeared
a Processing bar came up the completed then nothing, just the default windows desktop is showing

tried a few things with no further results.
Decided to uninstall wine again but this time with purge.
Followed this advice from a web page
sudo apt-get autoremove wine* --purge

Massive mistake, after about 20mins it finally finished removing just about everything that makes unbuntu work..Im now in the lengthy process of rebuilding Ubuntu hopefully without loosing data

Ubuntu 14.04 64bit

[vector]

Now trying this approach.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
sudo apt-get update
Then install (example for the development branch):
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

Didnt do this before because development branchs are normally dicey and I couldn't find a stable suffix

[vector]

I then installed notepad 6 to prove wine was working
all ok
then installed Zoom edit and share.
its working yay!!

now back to rebuilding what ever wine* took out