mr jingle
2010-Oct-24 13:13 UTC
[Wine] Installing multiple wine version from Ubuntu Repository?
Probably I should ask this question to Ubuntu forums, but nevertheless... Is possible to install multiple concurrent version of wine from the wine repositories? Reasons to prefer this to building from sources should be obvious, I suppose: easyness in regression testing, compatibility, installation/removing... I've tried looking to the build scripts of deb files, on the eventual possibility of creating a personal PPA, with different wine install paths (ie: /opt/wine-1.2, /opt/wine-1.1.44, etc. ) and different executable name ( /opt/wine-1.3/bin/wine1.3, for example), but I discovered that it's it's something well above my abilities. manually downloading single deb files and extracting on a local folder doesn't work, of course. Any suggestion?
John Drescher
2010-Oct-24 13:16 UTC
[Wine] Installing multiple wine version from Ubuntu Repository?
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, mr jingle <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Probably I should ask this question to Ubuntu forums, but nevertheless... > > Is possible to install multiple concurrent version of wine from the wine repositories?No. After the first install you must compile from source and run the wine executable directly. John
motub
2010-Oct-24 13:57 UTC
[Wine] Re: Installing multiple wine version from Ubuntu Repository?
mr jingle wrote:> Is possible to install multiple concurrent version of wine from the wine repositories? Reasons to prefer this to building from sources should be obvious, I suppose: easyness in regression testing, compatibility, installation/removing...Actually, the reasons you have stated are the reasons to prefer building from source rather than installing binary packages. As far as I know, you can only have one binary package installed at a time (thus, the answer to your question would be 'No'). However, it is possible to have several built-but-not-technically-"installed" source builds. Atm I have 3-- 1.3.4., which was the currenty-available build when I swapped distros; 1.3.5, the most recently available build; and 1.1.41, the last known good build for Myst, which I felt like playing last week.