Installing an old version of wine.

[knixius]

I have used wine now for a few years, and since 5.0 I'm having issues. Not just with getting libfaudio0 installed, but for example, when I close one of my windows, my whole screen flashes black for over a second.

Is there a way to installing 4.0 or 4.5?

Thank you.

[spoon0042]

Copying my post from another thread:

If you've already done the initial steps here: https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

...then this should get you 4.21 staging:

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apt install winehq-staging=4.21~eoan wine-staging=4.21~eoan wine-staging-amd64=4.21~eoan wine-staging-i386=4.21~eoan

You'll probably want to hold or pin the packages otherwise the latest wine-staging will be installed when you do an 'apt upgrade'. If something worked in 4.21 and isn't working in the current version (5.5) though you should file a bug.

For Debian/Ubuntu/derivatives that should do it, replacing '4.21' with whatever version you want, 'eoan' with the appropriate distro codename (the one you added a repository for following the wiki instructions), and 'staging' can be swapped for 'devel' or 'stable'. For example the last 4.0 stable version on Debian 10 would be 'winehq-stable=4.0.3~buster'. You can use 'apt policy packagename' for a list, the winehq repository goes back as far as 2.something.

(I assume other distros have a similar process but I'm only familiar with Debian.)

[jury]

You can also use PlayOnLinux, where you can have as many different wine versions as you want "the simple way". That means you just choose the wine version you want from the huge list and press one button to download it and install.
Yes, I know that theoretically (as I have never tried myself) there is a possibility to have more wine's without any external tool like POL, but it can not be done the simple way as in POL.