Upgrade Wine Without Losing Existing Files?

fergatron · Post by **fergatron** » Sun May 18, 2008 10:54 am

Hi,

I'm a wine noob, so don't be harsh. I want to upgrade wine to the lastest version, but I don't know how to do it without removing my current wine package. Is there an upgrade option or will I lose all the programs I have installed now? Thanks.

Warren Dumortier · Post by **Warren Dumortier** » Sun May 18, 2008 11:08 am

Hi!
You mean update with your package manager?
What's your distro?

You can safely upgrade wine without losing your wine directory!

2008/5/18 fergatron <[email protected]>:

Hi,

I'm a wine noob, so don't be harsh. I want to upgrade wine to the lastest
version, but I don't know how to do it without removing my current wine
package. Is there an upgrade option or will I lose all the programs I have
installed now? Thanks.

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Post by **dimesio** » Sun May 18, 2008 11:17 am

Updating Wine itself will not remove any apps from your ~/.wine directory, which is where your Windows apps are installed. However, keep in mind that things sometimes break between versions, and apps that worked under an earlier Wine version sometimes will not work under a newer version.

fergatron · Post by **fergatron** » Sun May 18, 2008 11:40 am

That's good to know. I'm running Fedora 8. I looked under my package manager and the latest version of wine is the one I'm running (0.9.58). I've heard of YUM, but I don't know how to get an updated repository. Thanks for your guidance.

hendrik · Post by **hendrik** » Sun May 18, 2008 12:15 pm

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:17:07AM -0500, dimesio wrote:

Updating Wine itself will not remove any apps from your ~/.wine directory, which is where your Windows apps are installed. However, keep in mind that things sometimes break between versions, and apps that worked under an earlier Wine version sometimes will not work under a newer version.

WHich brings up the following question: How can I have several
different versions of Wine installed, such as the latest one and the one
that application X runs under? And where do I find these vintage Wines?

I'm running a Debian lenny system, by the way.

-- hendrik

Post by **dimesio** » Sun May 18, 2008 4:20 pm

hendrik wrote:
WHich brings up the following question: How can I have several
different versions of Wine installed, such as the latest one and the one
that application X runs under? And where do I find these vintage Wines?

I'm running a Debian lenny system, by the way.

-- hendrik

This question has come up a couple of times:
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t ... ght=prefix
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t ... ght=prefix

Links to download the source code:
http://www.winehq.org/site/download#source

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun May 18, 2008 4:46 pm

hendrik wrote:WHich brings up the following question: How can I have several different versions of Wine installed,

You can't have them installed. Not at least into one common place. See previous topics dimesio linked to.