Which version of wine am I using?

jmuffin · Post by **jmuffin** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:07 pm

I'm currently running Ubuntu 8.10. When I search for Wine in Synaptic it tells me I have version 1.1.14 installed, but on the about tab in the Wine config window it says I'm using 0.9.60. I'm left wondering who I am being lied to by. Any ideas?

Christoph Korn · Post by **Christoph Korn** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:17 pm

In a terminal run: wine --version
This should make things clear.

Christoph Korn

jmuffin schrieb:

I'm currently running Ubuntu 8.10. When I search for Wine in Synaptic it tells me I have version 1.1.14 installed, but on the about tab in the Wine config window it says I'm using 0.9.60. I'm left wondering who I am being lied to by. Any ideas?

jmuffin · Post by **jmuffin** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:24 pm

Thanks! This tells me I am in fact using 0.9.60. I just went through the process of uninstalling and reinstalling wine today. Any idea why I am still using an old version? And also why Synaptic thinks I have the newest one installed?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:08 pm

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:24 PM, jmuffin <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks! This tells me I am in fact using 0.9.60. I just went through the process of uninstalling and reinstalling wine today. Any idea why I am still using an old version? And also why Synaptic thinks I have the newest one installed?

You probably have two versions installed, one from synaptic, and one
from source.

'which wine' will tell you which one is being called, e.g., where
0.9.60 is located on your system (I'd bet /usr/local/bin).

--
-Austin

L. Rahyen · Post by **L. Rahyen** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:19 pm

This tells me I am in fact using 0.9.60. I just went through the process of
uninstalling and reinstalling wine today. Any idea why I am still using an old
version? And also why Synaptic thinks I have the newest one installed?

Run:

which -a wine

To see what wine binaries you have installed. First binary in the list is what
you are using by default when run "wine". If you are using wrong binary then
either remove all binaries you don't want to use or change order of paths in
$PATH environment variable to use the binary you want. If you are simple user
it is recommended to have only one version of Wine installed.

jmuffin · Post by **jmuffin** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:35 pm

which -a wine showed me two paths, I deleted wine in usr/local/bin and now winecfg says I'm running the correct version and which -a wine only shows me the one path. It also gave me my alsa driver back in the audio tab so I can hear sound in portal again. Thanks for the quick responses and help.