wine users - Apr 2011 - Lucid LTS: different Wine versions for 32 or 64 bits ?

Hello, 

I 've been using Wine 1.2 wjth Ubuntu 10.04-LTS an a 64bit Asus laptop for
almost one year.
In the beginning, everything worked OK (graphic refresh, focus, etc...). Now
Wine works bad, I suppose some updates in Lucid do not suit Wine 1.2 (?). I
tried XP mode, W98 mode (my applications are oldies ;-), but the behaviour seems
bad in any case.
On this laptop, synaptic shows Wine 1.2 installed and unused packets to install
1.3.
I would like to shift to 1.3, but how do I backup Wine 1.2 (except for a
complete image of my system) ?

I have an other PC, a 32bit Athlon desktop, running Ubuntu 10.04-LTS too, always
updated as proposed.  On this PC, actually running no Wine, Synaptic shows
packets only for Wine 1.2 (and 1.0).

Does it mean I have to install 1.2 to "see" a possible shift to 1.3,
on does 1.3 only run on 64bits PCs ??

Thanks for your advice.

you don't need to "backup" wine, if you remove or upgrade the wine
package the wine prefixes will stay, so you don't need to worry about your
existing installations.

that you can see 1.3.* in lucid tells me that you once successfully tried:
http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

so just do that on your desktop.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Markorki <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I 've been using Wine 1.2 wjth Ubuntu 10.04-LTS an a 64bit Asus laptop
for almost one year.
> In the beginning, everything worked OK (graphic refresh, focus, etc...).
Now Wine works bad, I suppose some updates in Lucid do not suit Wine 1.2
> (?). I tried XP mode, W98 mode (my applications are oldies ;-), but the
behaviour seems bad in any case.
> On this laptop, synaptic shows Wine 1.2 installed and unused packets to
install 1.3.
> I would like to shift to 1.3, but how do I backup Wine 1.2 (except for a
complete image of my system) ?
You don't have to 'backup' Wine 1.2.  You can install Wine 1.3.x on
top of your existing Wine installation and then if it does not work,
back out to the existing Wine 1.2 version using the facilities
available in Ubuntu.
>
> I have an other PC, a 32bit Athlon desktop, running Ubuntu 10.04-LTS too,
always updated as proposed. ?On this PC, actually running no Wine,
> Synaptic shows packets only for Wine 1.2 (and 1.0).
>
> Does it mean I have to install 1.2 to "see" a possible shift to
1.3, on does 1.3 only run on 64bits PCs ??
No, you do not have to install Wine 1.2 to go to Wine 1.3.x.  Wine
1.3.x runs on both 32 and 64 bit PCs as Andre pointed out.  I have
several Macs and one is 64 bit and the other 32 and it gets along just
fine on both.

One word of caution, DO NOT copy your .wine directory and move it to
the other PC.  This should not work and is not worth the hassle.

James McKenzie

To andr? :

You're right, I had used 
http://www.winehq.org/download/deb ... 
and forgotten because for months everything worked all right and my synaptic
seemed ready for an upgrade, so I just **used** my wine config until it began to
work not so well with time...
Thanks for reminding me this good url !

To James:

 I uninstalled my big windows applications before updating to wine 1.3, and
installed them from scratch, except for a ".ini" file I hoped to
reuse, just stored in an other directory.

So thanks to you both, refresh problems are gone, and almost all is OK on my 32
bits system, the problems left are beetween wine and my applications, 2 pb on my
64bits PC, only one on my 32 bits PC. I think I'll post new topics for thess
problems.