wine users - Mar 2007 - using several wine versions from .deb packages?

Hi,

Wine documentation says that it can be installed anywhere, locate its
libraries and just run.  This is certainly true for self-compiled
sources which could e.g. be run from their compiled location.

I wonder if this is also possible with pre-built Debian/Ubuntu binary
packages.  Normally, Debian installs exactly one version of a package
in /usr/.

Is there some possibility to use multiple versions concurrently, e.g.
dpkg -i --root=/home/wine9.09 wine0.9.19.deb
dpkg -i --root=/home/wine20050725 wine20050725.deb
or something similar?  Does anybody have experience with this?

How to mix/match both a regularly installed wine in /usr and a local
one in /home and be sure /home/wine does not use /usr/wine?

/home/wine9.09/bin/wine foo.exe > log1
/hmoe/wine2005/bin/wine foo.exe > log2

That would be valuable for regression testing.

Thanks for your help,
	Jorg Hohle

Joerg Hoehle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Wine documentation says that it can be installed anywhere, locate its
> libraries and just run.  This is certainly true for self-compiled
> sources which could e.g. be run from their compiled location.
> 
> I wonder if this is also possible with pre-built Debian/Ubuntu binary
> packages.  Normally, Debian installs exactly one version of a package
> in /usr/.
> 
> Is there some possibility to use multiple versions concurrently, e.g.
> dpkg -i --root=/home/wine9.09 wine0.9.19.deb
> dpkg -i --root=/home/wine20050725 wine20050725.deb
> or something similar?  Does anybody have experience with this?
> 
> How to mix/match both a regularly installed wine in /usr and a local
> one in /home and be sure /home/wine does not use /usr/wine?
> 
> /home/wine9.09/bin/wine foo.exe > log1
> /hmoe/wine2005/bin/wine foo.exe > log2
> 
> That would be valuable for regression testing.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Jorg Hohle
I ran wine-git then copied the result into a directory called
"wine-test"
and ran it from there for regression testing: see
http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine  The top-level directory contains a symlink
to bin/wine.

In direct answer to your question, as I am using an RPM distro, I really
can't.  But it is quite possible to run "./configure
--prefix=/usr/local"
which is the default for Wine, for one version and "./configure
--prefix=/usr" which is the default for my distro (Mandriva) for another,
and then specify which executable you want on the command line.  This
involves an actual installation.  What I did above omitted the "make
install" step.  It looks as though your suggestion should work, provided
you can run dpkg that way.  Have a look at man dpkg.  Debian seems to have
man pages for everything, many more than I have.

HTH somehow,

Doug.
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