Changing release channels

[Epicular]

I'd like to move my copy of wine from the stable update channel to the development update channel without reinstalling it. How is this accomplished?

[dimesio]

I'm not quite sure what mean by "move" your copy of Wine. If you just want to upgrade from the stable to the development release, use your package manager to do it the same way you would upgrade any other package. That does, however, involve installing the development package. If you are asking whether you can use the development release without installing it, the answer is yes, if you build it yourself. Wine can be run from the build directory. If you are talking about reinstalling apps to a wineprefix after upgrading Wine, the new version will update the wineprefix and ideally all installed apps should still work, but sometimes they don't, and you may have to reinstall them. There is no way of predicting in advance whether that will happen.