Hi, I'm a Ubuntu Edgy user, I'm using some win32 softwares with wine 0.9.22,I think wine is great: everything works perfectly! Few days ago I see my wine version is very old so I decided to upgrade to 0.9.29 but... softwares I used perfectly with 0.9.22 don't work at all with recent wine versions. :-/ I believed the more recent is Wine, the better compatibility it has with win32 softwares but it seems not to be so, d'oh! I wonder how to determine which is the best wine recent version for win32 softwares I need, I hope is not necessary to try every version. I see there's a compatibility softwares list online, but softwares I need is not on that list anyway everything works fine on 0.9.22 so what can I do? I hope there's a solution doesn't leave me "freezed" to 0.9.22 for the rest of my life ;-) Sincerely, deadlinx P.S. please be patient :-) ___________________________________ Vinci i biglietti per FIFA World Cup in Germania! yahoo.it/concorso_messenger
Saturday January 13 2007 11:50?Marco Venutti ????????:> I believed the more recent is Wine, the better > compatibility it has with win32 softwares but it seems > not to be so, d'oh!Theoretically yes. And practically almost always too... But sometimes not. And if not it is very good idea to report what problems you have. For me for example Wine 0.9.29 works better than 0.9.22. Please note that I have a lot of Windows software - 30+ and games. So my experience is wide enough to say that 0.9.29 is better than 0.9.22.> - programs crash on start > - sometimes they start but they immediately freezeFor me everything works perfectly with new Wine. Can you please tell us more details? What programs you trying to run? What is their console output?
> Few days ago I see my wine version is very old so I > decided to upgrade to 0.9.29 but... > softwares I used perfectly with 0.9.22 don't work at > all with recent wine versions. :-/ >try this: 1. back-up your ~/.wine directory. You could do the following. tar cfz wine.backup.tgz ~/.wine or simply move it to some other place 2. delete ~/.wine folder and run winecfg to re-build a new one. rm -rf ~/.wine 3. install whatever software you were using before I know this is not a proper solution. One should not wipe out the entire installation every time an upgrade is in place. If the above works, then there is some sort of incompatibility between the configuration/setup of the two wine versions. I've seen this behavior before. -Ioannis