How to downgrade wine on arch linux or manjaro for world of warcraft

[codeliger]

The Arch Linux community keeps a archive of previous packages alphabetically sorted here:
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/

I searched under the W section for wine and wine staging

https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/w/wine/
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/w/wine-staging/

Pick one of the packages with the .xz or .zst file extension for example:
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/ ... kg.tar.zst

The XZ file extension is used by LZMA which is the standard compression format used by the well known 7zip. https://www.7-zip.org/

The ZST file extension is used to identify a relatively new compression format developed by Facebook.
Its called ZStandard and you can read about it here: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/

CD to a directory you want to download the file into and use wget to download the compressed file to the current directory

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cd /home/$USER/Downloads
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/w/wine-staging/wine-staging-5.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

You dont need to unpack it yourself! You can use pacman:

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pacman -U wine-staging-5.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

This will install wine-staging and may also try to remove other versions of wine you installed.

The reason I picked wine-staging 5.9 is because its known to work well with World of Warcraft Classic.

[DarkShadow44]

Or just use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/downgrade/