Upgrade wine but keep installed Windows applications

[Ramblin]

The instructions I can find to upgrade wine (from say 4 to 5) talk about uninstalling the existing wine and re-installing the new version

Since Windows applications are installed in a sub-directory of the wine installation, if I do this, I lose all my Windows applicaitons during the upgrade and would have to re-install/re-register the Windows applications again.

In some cases, the developer makes it difficult to re-install their applications (yes, I'm thinking of you Microsoft).

Is there a way to upgrade wine to a new version but NOT have to re-install Windows applications?

Thank you in advance for any help.

[madewokherd]

Windows applications are installed into ~/.wine, unless you have changed that as described in the FAQ. Uninstalling Wine will not remove them.

You can backup ~/.wine to a tar.gz if you want to be extra safe.