I originally installed wine several years ago in a manner I no longer recall. I would like to update wine to the altest version but I cannot figure out how to do so. I found a helpful site that lets you install it via Homebrew (http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/) but I went through the process, let it install wine (it took forever), and found that it did not work. When I check my version of wine through the Terminal, it says
wine --version
wine-1.4.1
Which is obviously not the latest version. I want to know: A) how do I uninstall wine cleanly, and B) Having done so, reinstall it as its latest version (Is that Homebrew method viable?). Please keep in mind that when it comes to the terminal, wine, and all related matters, please think of me as an idiot born yesterday, as naive and ignorant as a baby.
Updating Wine
Re: Updating Wine
This is why I never recommend homebrew. Because of it's stupid, flawed ideals, what it installs is directly on your system. As such, you have to be extra careful..I have no idea if it does this, but if it overwrites an apple library that's dangerous as heck. It certainly throws its stuff in the same folders which has me shaking my head.
if you mess it up, you have to go through manually with a fine tooth comb and carefully remove evreything it installed. Looks like you have a bunch of old wine stuff strewn across the unix folders of your mac, probably from a make install..(also not a good idea on a mac for the same reasons unless you know what you are doing)
I always recommend macports. First, it's up to date, second its resources are separate from your system's. yes it can take a little more diskspace, but it and everything installed through it, can be removed easily by deleting the /opt/local folder. And the added security of not messing up your system is worth it. I can vouche that wine on macports works just fine. That said I will always prefer wineskin (not supported here) which fits OSX's app format so much better, is easy to install, and wine is precompiled and installed in folder bundles called "engines". No actual wine code is changed.
if you mess it up, you have to go through manually with a fine tooth comb and carefully remove evreything it installed. Looks like you have a bunch of old wine stuff strewn across the unix folders of your mac, probably from a make install..(also not a good idea on a mac for the same reasons unless you know what you are doing)
I always recommend macports. First, it's up to date, second its resources are separate from your system's. yes it can take a little more diskspace, but it and everything installed through it, can be removed easily by deleting the /opt/local folder. And the added security of not messing up your system is worth it. I can vouche that wine on macports works just fine. That said I will always prefer wineskin (not supported here) which fits OSX's app format so much better, is easy to install, and wine is precompiled and installed in folder bundles called "engines". No actual wine code is changed.
