ok,i am with Linux Mint 11 and i have installed Wine 1.3.15,if i want to update Wine,do i uninstalle my wine 1.3.15 or i can update with out uninstalle?
On 7/21/11 7:27 PM, totry wrote:> ok,i am with Linux Mint 11 and i have installed Wine 1.3.15,if i want to update Wine,do i uninstalle my wine 1.3.15 or i can update with out uninstalle? >You should be able to update without de-installing your existing Wine program and file installation. James
On 7/22/11 7:16 PM, totry wrote:> there is a Wine version for 64bits?Not yet that I know of. All of the downloadable Wine releases for Linux are 32 bit for now. James
jjmckenzie wrote:> > All of the downloadable Wine releases for Linux > are 32 bit for now. >Fedora and openSUSE both provide 64 bit packages, and have done so for over a year.
"dimesio" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> jjmckenzie wrote: > > All of the downloadable Wine releases for Linux > > are 32 bit for now. > Fedora and openSUSE both provide 64 bit packages, > and have done so for over a year.OTOH, last I remember seeing here, about the only thing 64-bit wine is currently useful for is testing 64-bit wine. There are not many 64-bit Windows apps, and 32-bit wine, being more mature, does a better job of running 32-bit Windows apps (even on a 64-bit OS).
perryh wrote:> > OTOH, last I remember seeing here, about the only thing 64-bit wine > is currently useful for is testing 64-bit wine. There are not many > 64-bit Windows apps, and 32-bit wine, being more mature, does a > better job of running 32-bit Windows apps (even on a 64-bit OS).It's true that 64 bit Wine is not necessary if you don't have any 64 bit apps you are trying to run. As for how well it runs 32 bit apps, I have not had a problem with the 64 bit openSUSE packages, and all my apps are 32 bit.