Downgrading Wine

[Old Git]

Background:

I wish to downgrade from 3.1 to 2.4, because I know that one important program works correctly on 2.4, but is seriously impaired on 2.5 or 2.6 and later.

I am running Wine on Linux Mint 17.3 xfce. [No, thank you for asking but I have no wish to change Linux distro.]

[Yes I have raised the issue on bugzilla as have several before me, thank you again for asking but no there has been no improvement, you flatter my skills but no I cannot identify the cause let alone program any fix.]

I currently have Winehq listed in the repositories, and use it in preference to the distro provided source of Wine.

I have retrieved the 2.4 .deb package from the Wine site.

Intended action:

I intend to remove the listings of Winehq from the Software Sources, and then install the .deb package. I am hoping that there have been no significant changes to the architecture of Wine, and that no unwanted file versions will remain.

[Thank you for enquiring again, but no I do not wish to use Play on Linux or similar as several installed programs must interact with each other, PoL puts them each in their own little playpen so they can't see each other!]

Request for info:

Has anyone done anything like this?
- Am I on the right track?
- How did it turn out?

Please tell me if I am likely to do something nasty to my box!

Many thanks for your help.

[jkfloris]

I will take the following steps:
- backup your Wineprefix
- delete your Wineprefix
- remove and purge the 3.1 Wine packages
- remove the WineHQ repo
- install wine 2.4
- reinstall your Windows program
- import necessary data from your backup

Yes I have raised the issue on bugzilla

Can you share the bug number?

one important program

I also want an important program! Can you share the name?

[Old Git]

Can you share the bug number?
Can you share the name?

28933
Screamer Radio v0.4.3

"Important" is in the eye of the beholder.

Your recipe seems not far short of using DBAN (Daryl's Boot And Nuke) to start again! I was hoping for something less destructive.

[dimesio]

You can try downgrading without removing the existing wineprefix(es). There's a reasonably good chance they will survive the change, and if they don't, just delete them and reinstall your apps then.

[Old Git]

You can try downgrading without removing the existing wineprefix(es).

It did work. Tnx.