Unable to update wine

vhradice · Post by **vhradice** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:55 am

I am running Fedora FC12 and tried to update wine. Here is the output from yum list wine:
Installed Packages
wine.i686 1.1.38-1.fc12 @updates
wine.x86_64 1.1.38-1.fc12 @updates
Available Packages
wine.i686 1.2.0-1.fc12 updates
wine.x86_64 1.2.0-1.fc12 updates

When I try to update wine, I get the following message:

Error: wine conflicts with wine-wow

The output from yum list wine-wow is

Available Packages
wine-wow.i686 1.2.0-1.fc12 updates
wine-wow.x86_64 1.2.0-1.fc12 updates

What is wine-wow?

Can I delete it?

Is it a replacement for wine?

How do I update wine with this installed?

Thanks, VInce Radice

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:46 am

On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 10:55 -0500, vhradice wrote:

Is it a replacement for wine?

'yum info package-name' is normally your friend, but this time all it
says is "Files for wine wow seperation" which means nothing to me.

Could it be anything to do with World of Warcraft?

How do I update wine with this installed?

If nobody says otherwise, you could try removing wine-wow before
upgrading wine and reinstalling wine-wow if you decide you need it.

Martin

vhradice · Post by **vhradice** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:36 pm

I tried several things trying to install wine-wow 64 bit, remove wine-wow 32 bit, update wine-wow, and various confirmations of the two packages. In frustration, I tried to remove wine and re-install it. That worked. It picked up the new version of wine-wow. I chalk it up to a quirk in yum and the dependencies of wine and wine-wow.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:12 am

vhradice wrote:I tried several things trying to install wine-wow 64 bit, remove wine-wow 32 bit

In most cases you need the opposite. Most win programs are 32-bit. You won't get any benefits from using wine-64. It's much less stable then wine-32.

vhradice · Post by **vhradice** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:07 pm

wine-1.2.0-1.fc12.x86_64 is installed.
wine-wow.x86_64 1.2.0-1.fc12 is installed.
It looks like the 32 bit version is not and cannot be installed as long as the 64 bit version is installed.

Will the 64 bit version run 32 bit versions of Windows programs?

If not, then I will have to remove the 64 bit versions and install the 32 bit versions now that I know the proper way to name the packages for Yum.

Mariusz PluciÅ„ski · Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:50 pm

W dniu 03.08.2010 19:07, vhradice pisze:

wine-1.2.0-1.fc12.x86_64 is installed.
wine-wow.x86_64 1.2.0-1.fc12 is installed.
It looks like the 32 bit version is not and cannot be installed as long as the 64 bit version is installed.

Will the 64 bit version run 32 bit versions of Windows programs?

If not, then I will have to remove the 64 bit versions and install the 32 bit versions now that I know the proper way to name the packages for Yum.

In Fedora, package "wine" is metapackage which installs all
packages you need to use wine. 32 bit version installs only 32
bit wine, while x86-64 installs both 32 and 64 bit environments.
And you don't need to worry about this, especially don't need
to worry about version of wine-wow.

So if you have installed wine-1.2.0-1.fc12.x86_64, then it
should be possible to run applications for both architectures.
Simply try to run any windows application to be sure you can.

BTW, WoW means "Windows-on-Windows" and is not related to
World of Warcraft

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 3:02 pm

Mariusz PluciÅ„ski <[email protected]> wrote:

Sent: Aug 3, 2010 10:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Wine] Unable to update wine

W dniu 03.08.2010 19:07, vhradice pisze:
wine-1.2.0-1.fc12.x86_64 is installed.
wine-wow.x86_64 1.2.0-1.fc12 is installed.
It looks like the 32 bit version is not and cannot be installed as long as the 64 bit version is installed.

Will the 64 bit version run 32 bit versions of Windows programs?

If not, then I will have to remove the 64 bit versions and install the 32 bit versions now that I know the proper way to name the packages for Yum.
In Fedora, package "wine" is metapackage which installs all
packages you need to use wine. 32 bit version installs only 32
bit wine, while x86-64 installs both 32 and 64 bit environments.
And you don't need to worry about this, especially don't need
to worry about version of wine-wow.

There is a slight correction to this statement. WindowsonWindows (WOW) support has been started on Windows64 versions, but some features you need to run a Windows32 program may not be fully implemented.
If you run into difficulties running your favorite Windows32 bit program, first try to install 32 bit Wine through yum (the programs should be named differently and the files should be named differently.
If the problem affects only WOW, then a bug report should be filed, if one does not exist, to state there is a loss of functionality between the two.
If the problem affects both WOW and Wine32 bit implementation, then a bug report should be filed, if one does not exist to state that there is a loss of functionality that affects both platforms.

So if you have installed wine-1.2.0-1.fc12.x86_64, then it
should be possible to run applications for both architectures.
Simply try to run any windows application to be sure you can.

This should be true, if you are using a 64 bit architecture. If you attempt to install this package on a 32 bit architecture, then only the 32 bit version will be installed.

James McKenzie