development branch installation questions

[ToddAndMargo2]

Hi All,

Fedora 41

I have a couple of question s about installation sf the development branch:

1) I currently have the rpm of the "stable" branch installed. Do I need to remove it before installing the rpm of the "development" branch? Do I need to use a new wineprefix?

2) When I decide to go back to the stable branch, do I need to remove the development branch first? Do I need to use a new wineprefix?

Many thanks,
-T

[dimesio]

Our packages are designed so that different branches can be installed side by side. The winehq-* packages contain the symlinks that make that branch the system default; to install other branches that you don't want to be the default, install only the wine package and not the winehq-* package.

So, for example, assuming you've already installed winehq-stable:
--if you install winehq-devel, that will remove just the winehq-stable symlinks and install the development branch as the new system default. The stable package will still be installed, but you will have to use the full path to that wine to use it.
--if you install wine-devel (without the symlink package), that will install the development branch alongside the stable, keeping stable as the system default. You will have to use the full path to the development branch wine to use it.
--if you want to get rid of a branch altogether, uninstall it.
--the above applies to our packages, not the distro packages. Distro packages make themselves the default.

As for the wineprefix, 10.0 stable is identical to 10.0 devel in everything except name, so there shouldn't be a problem switching. Wineprefixes usually survive a change in version number as well, but not always, and the bigger the jump in version, the more likely there is to be a problem.

[ToddAndMargo2]

Thank you!