wine was updated and program no longer launch, like it launching on empty/default prefix

[postcd]

Hello,

on Linux Debian 11 the wine was updated by package manager:

The following packages will be upgraded:
wine-devel wine-devel-amd64 wine-devel-i386:i386 winehq-devel
Setting up wine-devel-i386:i386 (7.10~bullseye-1) ...
Setting up wine-devel-amd64 (7.10~bullseye-1) ...
Setting up wine-devel (7.10~bullseye-1) ...
Setting up winehq-devel (7.10~bullseye-1) ...

package is from: APT-Sources: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages

and the .exe launched using launcher command

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wine "/path/file.exe"

stopped working, saying something like that Wine prefix configuring, missing mono package, and other missing SW. Like it is using some default/empty prefix suddenly.

So my question is how to prevent this in future and how to launch properly now. I am backing up my /home partition so i can restore if the bad software damaged any settings.
Thank you in advance for help.

[jkfloris]

saying something like that Wine prefix configuring, missing mono package

This is normal. After you install a new Wine version and run wine, Wine will update the wineprefix.
Wine 7.10 also comes with a new Wine-mono version (7.3.0), so it will also be downloaded and installed as well.

and other missing SW

This is something I can't explain. Or you must have a .Net version installed. In that case, sometimes errors are shown when the wineprefix is updated.

However, after this the exe file should be executed. Is there something in the terminal output why that doesn't happen?

So my question is how to prevent this in future

One way to ensure that Wine does not update the wineprefix is to not update Wine.
Another way is to put disable in .update-timestamp

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echo disable > "${HOME}/.wine/.update-timestamp"

Whether there are any disadvantages to this, I can't say. But your Wine version and wineprefix will be out of sync.

[postcd]

Thank you for help.
I see that after reboot/second launch of the .exe it launched without problem