downgrade from 1.5 to 1.4

[labud]

opensuse 12.1 kde 4.7

I recently upgraded to opensuse 12.1 and saw that the wine version was only 1.3.3
I wanted to upgrade to stable 1.4, so I followed the directions about adding the repository that would allow me to get wine 1.4.

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http://www.winehq.org/>> clicked on Stable: 1.4[shortlog]>> http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.4  clicked on Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
  http://www.winehq.org/download >> SUSE Linux 	Download SUSE packages >> http://en.opensuse.org/Wine#Repositories  chose the proper repo and added it to my repositories.

However, when I went into Yast2 after adding the repo, I only saw wine 1.5 available.

Did I miss a step or choose the wrong repo?
How can I change this. I would like 1.4 wine.
I am running winmx3.54b4 and keep getting the

"Winmx has encountered a serious error and has to close"

so I thought wine 1.4 may be more appropriate than version 1.5.
thank you

[dimesio]

Did I miss a step or choose the wrong repo?
How can I change this. I would like 1.4 wine.

Packages are built by the distros, and openSUSE treats the stable release like any other version: it's available for two weeks, then replaced by the next release, never to be seen again in the repo. Your choices are to contact the package maintainer, search the OBS to see if anyone else has built a 1.4 package. or build it yourself.

I am running winmx3.54b4 and keep getting the

"Winmx has encountered a serious error and has to close"

so I thought wine 1.4 may be more appropriate than version 1.5.

The AppDB rates it gold for 1.5.0, so it should work. Did you follow the instructions in the howto? http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=2844

[labud]

yes I did follow the instructions in the how to. ty.
Was not actually aware there was a HOW TO, but have been installing it that way forever.

I notice all the testing has been done on Debian or derivative.

So if winmx is gold on wine 1.5, how do I determine why I am getting that particular error?

thank you for responding.

[dimesio]

So if winmx is gold on wine 1.5, how do I determine why I am getting that particular error?

Post console output. If it's long, use pastebin and post a link. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

[labud]

The error did not show up immediately but did today. I was running winmx thru console as suggested and the error ocured today. I was just recieving a pm thru the chat in Winmx and when I clicked on 'Recieve Message' I got the "Winmx has encountered.... "error.
As per your advice I have pasted the error log from the terminal here:
http://pastebin.com/ghrXHikm

Is there anything in this log that will help solve this problem?
thanks

[dimesio]

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dabud@linux-ih41:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Winmx> wine WinMX.exe

Try installing it to a 32 bit wineprefix. You can create one with

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WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix winecfg

Substitute the actual path to the wineprefix. After that, just install as you would normally, but specify the new wineprefix.

[labud]

Dimesio
I am certainly willing to give it a try but, I am not sure what you mean:

Try installing it to a 32 bit wineprefix

At the risk of sounding like a fool, Is there a page that has instructions to do this?


And this:

After that, just install as you would normally, but specify the new wineprefix

I am not sure I understand what I should install [perhaps WinMX ???][ or are you speaking of reinstalling wine?

My apologies if I am a little dense seeming.
I do appreciate your help. Thank you.

[dimesio]

At the risk of sounding like a fool, Is there a page that has instructions to do this?

A wineprefix is just the directory where Wine stores its fake c: drive. The default is ~/.wine, but you can specify a different location with the WINEPREFIX variable. The WINEARCH variable tells Wine to make the wineprefix pure 32 bit; if you don't specify that, and have 64 bit Wine installed, Wine will create a 64 bit wineprefix (which is what you have). Just use the command I gave you above, but substitute the actual path to the wineprefix.

I am not sure I understand what I should install [perhaps WinMX ???]

Install WinMX to the new wineprefix.

Some more information on wineprefixes: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-faf9617 ... 522d490faf

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 23:04, labud <[email protected]> wrote:

Dimesio
I am certainly willing to give it a try but, I am not sure what you mean:

 Try installing it to a 32 bit wineprefix

At the risk of sounding like a fool, Is there a page that has instructions to do this?


And this:

After that, just install as you would normally, but specify the new wineprefix

I am not sure I understand what I should install  [perhaps WinMX ???][ or are you speaking of reinstalling wine?

My apologies if I am a little dense seeming.
I do appreciate your help.  Thank you.

The Wine FAQ has lots of useful info: wiki.winehq.org/FAQ