Hi, I'm a wine noob, so don't be harsh. I want to upgrade wine to the lastest version, but I don't know how to do it without removing my current wine package. Is there an upgrade option or will I lose all the programs I have installed now? Thanks.
Hi! You mean update with your package manager? What's your distro? You can safely upgrade wine without losing your wine directory! 2008/5/18 fergatron <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:> Hi, > > I'm a wine noob, so don't be harsh. I want to upgrade wine to the lastest > version, but I don't know how to do it without removing my current wine > package. Is there an upgrade option or will I lose all the programs I have > installed now? Thanks. > > > > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080518/d3b0bd1a/attachment.htm
Updating Wine itself will not remove any apps from your ~/.wine directory, which is where your Windows apps are installed. However, keep in mind that things sometimes break between versions, and apps that worked under an earlier Wine version sometimes will not work under a newer version.
hendrik wrote:> > > WHich brings up the following question: How can I have several > different versions of Wine installed, such as the latest one and the one > that application X runs under? And where do I find these vintage Wines? > > I'm running a Debian lenny system, by the way. > > -- hendrikThis question has come up a couple of times: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=872&highlight=prefix http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=653&highlight=prefix Links to download the source code: http://www.winehq.org/site/download#source