winetricks wants to remove winehq-staging in favor of wine-common

[deusnovus]

Hello everyone, sorry for the basic question, I'm still a novice user of wine.

I have winehq-staging installed for yabridge and a few plugins require winetricks to work, but every time I try to install winetricks, it wants me to first remove winehq-staging, in favor of wine-common, in order for winetricks to work. I wonder whether I've gone about it the wrong way.

This is how the terminal looks like:

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[user@workstation ~]$ winetricks gdiplus
bash: winetricks: command not found...
Install package 'winetricks' to provide command 'winetricks'? [N/y] y

 * Waiting in queue... 
The following packages have to be installed:
 wine-common-8.17-1.fc38.noarch	Common files
 wine-core-8.17-1.fc38.x86_64	Wine core package
 wine-filesystem-8.17-1.fc38.noarch	Filesystem directories for wine
 winetricks-20230212-1.fc38.noarch	Work around common problems in Wine
The following packages have to be removed:
 winehq-staging-1:8.17-3.1.x86_64	WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
Proceed with changes? [N/y]

I installed winehq-staging on Fedora through WineHQ Wiki's instructions. Any advice would be more than welcome, thank you.

[invisible kid]

Can you install winetricks and then install wine-staging afterwords? Like if installing winetricks uninstalls wine-staging and installs wine, does installing wine-staging remove winetricks? (Possible, I don't know)

Also winetricks used to be just a script, so it might be possible to install it manually instead of through apt-get? (It looks like you are using apt/apt-get)

Sorry, just asking questions, I don't have a direct answer to your issue.

[deusnovus]

Thank you for the response! I think I tried both ways a week ago and yes, one wants to remove the other in any case.

Speaking of scripts, I came across this page yesterday, and it could possibly solve this problem: https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging

I will give it a shot today, see how it performs.

[invisible kid]

Great. If building from source for the first time it will take a bit of setup like switching to dev versions of some packages, but it shouldn't be too bad.