Roll back Wine a version

[mainliner]

Could some star link me to instructions for rolling back Wine version.

I carelessly upgraded to 3.8 staging and the fps in everything is for sh~t. Rolling back to 3.7 is proving tedious.

If someone has knowledge of the Debian way to resolve this I would be most appreciative.

[Bob Wya]

For Ubuntu 17.10 Artful ...

Get available package versions:

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aptitude versions winehq-staging

Package winehq-staging:
p  2.19.0~artful artful 500
p  2.20.0~artful artful 500
p  2.21.0~artful artful 500
p  3.6.0~artful artful 500
p  3.7.0~artful artful 500
p  3.8.0~artful artful 500

Package winehq-staging:i386:
p  2.19.0~artful artful 500
p  2.20.0~artful artful 500
p  2.21.0~artful artful 500
p  3.6.0~artful artful 500
p  3.7.0~artful artful 500
p  3.8.0~artful artful 500

Downgrade Wine Staging to a specified version and hold that package version:

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aptitude install winehq-staging=3.7.0~artful
sudo apt-mark hold winehq-staging

You can probably do something similar on Debian...
Google is your friend, etc...

Bob

[mainliner]

Thanks for the top tip using Google...this is what I found last night before posting.

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sudo apt-cache showpkg winehq-staging:amd64

That's a long list...

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sudo apt-get install winehq-staging=3.7.0~buster

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
winehq-staging : Depends: wine-staging (= 3.7.0~buster)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Not being completely retarded and without the help of Google I tried:

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sudo apt-get install wine-staging=3.7.0~buster

However, I found myself descending into dependency hell, with wine-staging=3.7.0~buster not being installed as wine-staging=3.8.0~buster was installed. You never know, there could be a recommended set up steps to removed absolutely all all wine components and dependencies that I might be missing. Today I descended deeper into the Inferno, only one more ring I'm happy to report, and I post this here so that anyone else in my stuation has some useful information:

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sudo apt-get remove wine*
sudo apt-get autoremove

Perhaps sleeping on it helped, but you could simply try rebooting. Though I'm unsure why this was necessary, clearing the apt-cache? Then I was able to install:

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 sudo apt-get install wine-staging-amd64=3.7.0~buster
 sudo apt-get install winehq-staging-i386=3.7.0~buster

and climb out:

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sudo apt-get install wine-staging=3.7.0~buster
sudo apt-get install winehq-staging=3.7.0~buster

Good luck.