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.

[dandv]

I'm running Mint and I want to roll back to the latest v5 stable due to this bug. What are the exact commands to do so?

https://www.winehq.org/news/2020112001 suggests the last version is 5.22, but `aptitude versions winehq-stable` shows `p 5.0.3~focal~`, not 5.22.

If I try to install that, I get:

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$ sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable=5.0.3~focal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine-stable : Depends: wine-stable-i386 (= 5.0.3~focal)
               Depends: wine-stable-amd64 (= 5.0.3~focal) but 6.0.0~focal-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[jkfloris]

A full Wine installation from the WineHQ repository consists of four packages:
* winehq-stable
* wine-stable
* wine-stable-amd64
* wine-stable-i386
All four packages must have the same version number.
Your apt command will be:

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sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable=5.0.3~focal wine-stable=5.0.3~focal wine-stable-amd64=5.0.3~focal wine-stable-i386:i386=5.0.3~focal