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bg3075
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Update wine?

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It appears that it is recommended to uninstall previous version of Wine, in order to update (here: http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo, first paragraph). When uninstalling previous versions of Wine, does the virtual C drive (and associated programs) remain intact?
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Lisa Denia

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Post by Lisa Denia »

It appears that it is recommended to uninstall previous version of Wine, in
order to update (here: http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo, first paragraph).
When uninstalling previous versions of Wine, does the virtual C drive (and
associated programs) remain intact?
Most probably, yes. The "C" drive is held in your WINEPREFIX(default is
$HOME/.wine), and will not be deleted as with any other application out there.
Some package managers have the ability to detect the setting files/folders in
your home and delete them, but I don't know any package manager to do that
without asking to.
If you always use your package manager to install wine, you'll most probably
don't need to remove the old version manually. Your package manager will do
everything for you(true for dpkg, rpm, pacman, ...).
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Re: Update wine?

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bg3075 wrote:It appears that it is recommended to uninstall previous version of Wine, in order to update (here: http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo, first paragraph). When uninstalling previous versions of Wine, does the virtual C drive (and associated programs) remain intact?
It's only necessary to uninstall old versions of Wine first if you're switching from using a binary package to building it yourself, or vice versa.

Uninstalling Wine does not affect any existing wineprefixes.
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Post by bg3075 »

Thanks guys...the only problem now is I can't remember if I installed wine via Yum (Fedora) or package. I think it was thru Yum.
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Post by vitamin »

bg3075 wrote:Thanks guys...the only problem now is I can't remember if I installed wine via Yum (Fedora) or package. I think it was thru Yum.
Doesn't matter. If it was a binary package installation, your package manger knows what to do with it and how to properly upgrade it.
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Martin Gregorie

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Post by Martin Gregorie »

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 23:52 -0500, vitamin wrote:
bg3075 wrote:
Thanks guys...the only problem now is I can't remember if I
installed wine via Yum (Fedora) or package. I think it was thru Yum.

Doesn't matter. If it was a binary package installation, your package
manger knows what to do with it and how to properly upgrade it.
The simple way is to run the command:

sudo yum list wine

If it reports 'installed' then you installed wine with yum: if you
didn't install it with yum it will say which repository its available
from.


Martin
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