How to change the default wine paths

[Schorsch]

Hello,

I guess the title might be a tad confusing, I am sorry for that. Anyway I guess I need to explain what I want to achieve.

I have multiple self compiled wine builds on my system. How am I able to set them as "default". By default I mean so that it gets called by stuff like winetricks. Some Googling brought up the setup for q4winehttps://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/documen ... l#winepath. Which I guess means that I have to export 4 env variables, which I don't know the names of.

Any help is apreciated

PS: In case I wasn't clear enough, I am not asking how to use my self compiled wine builds, I already know that (would be weird otherwise), I am just asking how to export them correctly so that helper programs like winetricks use them.

Oh and in case this is somehow related to the package management I am using Ubuntu.

[invisible kid]

Just opinions of a regular user. I think winetricks only goes by ~/.wine, so if you have
~/.wine-staging-6.0
~/.wine-staging-6.15
~/.wine-staging-6.17
you can just use a symbolic link like:

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cd
ln -s .wine-staging-6.17 .wine

Of course there can be no current ~/.wine folder, if there is change the name. Then you can remove and create the .wine pointer to whichever one you want winetricks to apply to.
I'm pretty sure this is correct, but not 100%.

[jkfloris]

Winetricks understand the following environment variables:
WINE=<path/to/wine/install/>
WINEARCH=<win32 or win64>
WINEPREFIX=<path/to/wine/prefix>

For example, you can start winetricks with:

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WINEPREFIX=/home/schorsch/wine-test/  WINE=/home/schorsch/wine/self-build/6.18/bin/wine winetricks

[Schorsch]

Many thanks for your answers.

@Invisible Kid, this is not what I am looking for. You are describing how to change the prefix and you should use the $WINEPREFIX variable for that, like the post below describes (just leave out WINE=xxx)

@jkfloris Thanks, this is the answer I was looking for. I actually did try WINE=path/to/wine, but somehow I seem to have misinterpreted the outcome I had back then. Tried it again and this works, many thanks ;

[invisible kid]

Glad you fixed your issue.