Upgrade Blues? - Turn that frown upside down

[Simon of Aragon]

I am not sure if I have done this correctly or whatnot. I am certain the question has been asked more than a dozen times over. But I needed more than 1 version of Wine on my machine. When I upgraded to 1.5.31 something went horrid wrong and I ended up having to purge wine altogether.

This is my solution:
My current highest binary build I can download from the repositories (on my system) is 1.4 by default. So that is installed for the apps that now work with version 1.4 by default. I then downloaded and installed wine 1.5.31 to /home/sysop/.wine-1.5.31 and run other programs with a script such as this;

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#!/bin/bash
export WINEPREFIX="/home/simon/.wine-upgrade"
export WINESERVER="/home/simon/.wine-1.5.31/bin/wineserver"
export WINELOADER="/home/simon/.wine-1.5.31/bin/wine"
export WINEDEBUG="-all"
export WINEDLLPATH="/home/simon/.wine-1.5.31/lib/wine"
cd "/media/drive_c/Cryptic Studios"
$WINELOADER 'Star Trek Online.exe'

This seems to be working for me. It took a lot of time going over the wiki here to figure this much out. I know the mods here like to tell people to upgrade to the latest version when they are having issues but sometimes the latest and greatest isn't always the answer. But I understand that it should be the first thing you check off the list. I think I have my first gray hair. LoL

At least now, if I have to "purge" wine again, I know right where to look. Feel free to point out any errors in my method. I am no programmer and my ego don't bruise easy.