wine users - Mar 2011 - cannot update or uninstall evernote 4 under wine

Hi,
I installed evernote under wine on ubuntu 10.10, but now that I want to update
to the latest version of evernote, I get a message that evernote is already
installed for one user and I can only install the new version after uninstalling
the previous one. The trouble is that when I do that from the wine menu it seems
to uninstall but then reinstalls the same older version. I'm stuck in a
loop. I just want evernote to update. How do I do it?
My wine version is up to date.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:52 AM, mhguda <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I installed evernote under wine on ubuntu 10.10, but now that I want to
update to the latest version of evernote, I get a message that evernote is
already
> installed for one user and I can only install the new version after
uninstalling the previous one. The trouble is that when I do that from the wine
menu it
> seems to uninstall but then reinstalls the same older version. I'm
stuck in a loop. I just want evernote to update. How do I do it?
How does this program update?  Is it through a web interface, the
program or some other method?
> My wine version is up to date.
I still want you to run wine --version and provide what is given.
Wine development is up to 1.3.16 and that is what we will ask you to
use for any troubleshooting/testing.

Thank you.

James McKenzie

My wine version is 1.2.2-0ubuntu2~maverick2 (wine1.2)
The ubuntu software manager says it's up to date. I will now try the beta
version.
The program refuses to install the upgrade in any way I try: from the program,
or from a downloaded new version, or from th ewine install menu.

OK I tried installing the new version of wine, but now not even the installed
version of evernote works, and wine does not come up. It has installed but does
not work at all. I will go back to the stable version. So the problem is still
that I cannot uninstall or update evernote. And with wine beta I cannot even
run.

> You state that Evernote will not run with the development version but
> does with the stable? 
That is correct. And when I went back to the stable version it will run but not
update. It says I can only have one per user installation, and to uninstall the
per user install to update. But when I try to uninstall it seems to directly
reinstall evernote.

I guess I'll just stay with my current version of evernote until this is
resolved then. I do hope you can fix it. I use evernote under windows and the
newer version is really better...

Anyway thanks in advance for your help.

I found the following workaround:
If I run the evernote installer as root I can create a new instance of evernote
(for root) which runs fine. I then copied all the files from this install to my
own user folder, overwriting the older files. If I do that, the application runs
correctly. However it still will not update in the regular way. But, I can run
the root install, update it, and then copy the files to my user folder. At least
in this way I get the newest version of evernote to work.

mhguda wrote:
> I found the following workaround:
> If I run the evernote installer as root I can create a new instance of
evernote (for root) which runs fine. I then copied all the files from this
install to my own user folder, overwriting the older files. If I do that, the
application runs correctly. However it still will not update in the regular way.
But, I can run the root install, update it, and then copy the files to my user
folder. At least in this way I get the newest version of evernote to work.
You should not be running as root, and from the description of your problem, you
do not need to do that to workaround the update bug. Installing the new version
of Evernote to a clean wineprefix as a regular user should work. If you can only
install it as root, something is seriously messed up with your system.