Please provide a greater number of old versions for new Linux versions... For example, Im using Ubuntu 8.04 and it's ok... but I cant go to 8.10 cause there is no Wine 1.1.2 for that Ubuntu version provided .deb packages archive, and I cant launch some programs and games on higher Wines... And at least for now we dont rly have Wine working so well that we wouldn't want to try more than just 1 Wine version to try to launch some game or program... just yesterday I had to try allmost all Wine versions available to me to launch Civilization IV (Wine 1.1.9 was tha lucky one - did all that ppl suggested and anyway it worked only on this version)... on other hand such a game like Lineage 2 launches only on Wine 1.1.2 or lower! SW rebublic commando works correctly only on Wine 1.1.2 also (higher versions give some cursor bug to me, which makes game unplayable, though it launches). And some other programms ofc work only on higher Wine versions... The point is, as far as now Wine isn't so good that I could use just the higher version all the time, so I need at least as much as 1.1.2 to be able to have fun! I dont rly need 8.10 but I wont stay on Hardy Heron for the rest of my life anyway... So I hope ofc Wine gets so good I wont have such problems, but till then... plz add some older Wine versions for new distributive versions! :) tnx
> Please provide a greater number of old versions for new Linux versions... > For example, Im using Ubuntu 8.04 and it's ok... but I cant go to 8.10 cause there is no Wine 1.1.2 for that Ubuntu version provided .deb packages archive, and I cant launch some programs and games on higher Wines... > And at least for now we dont rly have Wine working so well that we wouldn't want to try more than just 1 Wine version to try to launch some game or program... just yesterday I had to try allmost all Wine versions available to me to launch Civilization IV (Wine 1.1.9 was tha lucky one - did all that ppl suggested and anyway it worked only on this version)... on other hand such a game like Lineage 2 launches only on Wine 1.1.2 or lower! SW rebublic commando works correctly only on Wine 1.1.2 also (higher versions give some cursor bug to me, which makes game unplayable, though it launches). And some other programms ofc work only on higher Wine versions... > The point is, as far as now Wine isn't so good that I could use just the higher version all the time, so I need at least as much as 1.1.2 to be able to have fun! I dont rly need 8.10 but I wont stay on Hardy Heron for the rest of my life anyway... So I hope ofc Wine gets so good I wont have such problems, but till then... plz add some older Wine versions for new distributive versions! :) tnx >This is a distribution specific problem. For example in gentoo the last 32 versions of wine are in the package manager. I would complain to ubuntu about that instead. John
I dont think U understood me... Im not complaining that Wine isnt in Ubuntu package manager... (ofc there are just 3 versions...) Im rather would like to be able to download Wine 1.1.2 .deb package for Ubuntu 8.10 from Wine download page's .deb package archive. Cause it's not there and I just cant go to Ubuntu 8.10, cause I rly need that Wine version to be able to use some programs... Also I'm just a user, not a coder or anything... I simply like Ubuntu over Windows... I dont rly know how to describe a bug... bug description like "Crashes on startup" seems a bit short to me... I dont even remember how to launch progs using Wine in terminal, cause I remember I could see a bit more of reasons that makes program to crash... anyway... And most surely I dont know how to build Wine from source, though I did it once and then I had 2 Wine installations on 1 OS of which I could delete only the one from Ubuntu package manager, cause I have no idea how to delete non-deb packages... :p once I had such thing and I just did format all particions cause was too lazy to search forums... Ofc I could prolly learn that all, but I dont rly have time nor wish to do that... Anyway, I dont believe that there is no way you can add older Wine versions for new OS versions to deb package archive on wine download page... I'd be most grateful! :) Though I can prolly live on 8.04 for next 2,5 years cause it's LTS, but this idea doesnt seem so nice to me...
I cant upgrade cause I cant use older Wine versions on Interpid... and i need at least one of those... Well, I can but then I have to learn lots of things, not just download .deb package and install...
Sindar wrote:> I cant upgrade cause I cant use older Wine versions on Interpid... and i need at least one of those... > Well, I can but then I have to learn lots of things, not just download .deb package and install... >Please advise to the name of the program and why you cannot run it on a newer version of Wine. 1.1.2 is very old. James McKenzie