How to use older Versions

ChaosFurry · Post by **ChaosFurry** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:01 pm

hey,
Sometimes there're Workarounds like "you'll need this dlls and this Wine Version". How can I use an older Version (0.9.58) without deinstalling the new? I tried it with PlayOnLinux, but there new problems appeared.

greetz

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:08 pm

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:01 PM, ChaosFurry<[email protected]> wrote:

hey,
Sometimes there're Workarounds like "you'll need this dlls and this Wine Version". How can I use an older Version (0.9.58) without deinstalling the new? I tried it with PlayOnLinux, but there new problems appeared.

There's not really any 'supported' way to do this. PlayOnLinux tries
to do this (I don't know how well though), but it's unsupported here.

The 'easiest' way would be to compile the versions you need, and
install them in separate places, e.g.,
$HOME/wine-0.9.58
$HOME/wine-1.0
$HOME/wine-1.1.2
etc.

--
-Austin

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:10 pm

ChaosFurry wrote:hey,
Sometimes there're Workarounds like "you'll need this dlls and this Wine Version". How can I use an older Version (0.9.58) without deinstalling the new? I tried it with PlayOnLinux, but there new problems appeared.

greetz

What distro? The Ubuntu repository still offers old versions available for download. http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/

solar_vibe · Post by **solar_vibe** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:41 pm

ChaosFurry wrote:hey,
Sometimes there're Workarounds like "you'll need this dlls and this Wine Version". How can I use an older Version (0.9.58) without deinstalling the new? I tried it with PlayOnLinux, but there new problems appeared.

Using GoboLinux, I compile the versions I want installed. If I want to use a different version of Wine, I disable the new version and symlink the old version. Example: "DisableProgram Wine 1.1.26", then "SymlinkProgram Wine 0.9.58"

Perhaps other distributions of linux have a similar feature.

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:41 am

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 21:41 -0500, solar_vibe wrote:

Using GoboLinux, I compile the versions I want installed. If I want to
use a different version of Wine, I disable the new version and symlink
the old version. Example: "DisableProgram Wine 1.1.26", then
"SymlinkProgram Wine 0.9.58"

Perhaps other distributions of linux have a similar feature.

Debian and RedHat have the alternatives system: run "man alternatives"
to find out about it.

Its designed to switch between different programs that do the same job,
e.g. to substitute Postfix or qmail for sendmail as your MTA, but
there's no reason you couldn't use it to select between Wine versions.

If you find that it is more complex to set up than you can justify, you
can always write a small shell script to do a similar job for Wine.

Martin