update wine

Willis Taylor · Post by **Willis Taylor** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:09 am

I have had to reinstall ubuntu 8.04 because of the incompatibility of
version 9.04 with my video. In doing so I lost my e-Sword program and
on download and install of the latest version of esword4linux I am
informed that my version of wine is incompatible with the program.
However, the latest version is not available for Hardy throuh the
Synaptic Package Manager and when I attempted to folloe the directions
in the readme file that comes with the Download of wine-1.1.25 my
attempt to install failed miserably. My present version is wine-1.0.0-1
and any hep would be greatly appreciated.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:26 am

I have had to reinstall ubuntu 8.04 because of the incompatibility of
version 9.04 with my video. In doing so I lost my e-Sword program and
on download and install of the latest version of esword4linux I am
informed that my version of wine is incompatible with the program.
However, the latest version is not available for Hardy throuh the
Synaptic Package Manager and when I attempted to folloe the directions
in the readme file that comes with the Download of wine-1.1.25 my
attempt to install failed miserably. My present version is wine-1.0.0-1
and any hep would be greatly appreciated.

First, use Synaptic to upgrade to 1.1.25 or 1.1.26. The version of Wine you are using is almost a year old.

Please visit the e-Sword entry on in the Applications Database and read through the comments I placed there. You might need to install msls31.dll using winetricks as this file is not incorporated with Wine.

James McKenzie

potatman · Post by **potatman** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:24 pm

The simplest way would be to add the Launchpad PPA for the Wine Team to your software sources. This will allow Synaptic to access a repository with much more up-to-date versions of Wine then the default repositories. There are complete instructions for how to do so in the following link:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa

This is a easy way for casual Wine users under Ubuntu to stay updated, but developers and hardcore users would likely just build the source themselves. I would also recommend updating Ubuntu to at least 8.10 as I am unsure if the last version of Wine would be in that repository for 8.04.