Honestly I don't understand it. First Oneiric Ocelot splits Ubuntu users right down the middle, next thing I know WINE is very unstable after the 1.3.30 update. Here's my problem. I run WINE in Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (11.04). All my apps were running quite happily on version 1.3.28/29 this includes apps: Photoshop CS5 extended Live For Speed Cheat Engine and various other little mods for LFS. Now, having installed WINE for the PPA Code: ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa I forgot to lock the version in Synaptic and disable the PPA. So when I ran, Code: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Naturally WINE's PPA updated WINE with the latest release. So I purged the PPA, and uninstalled 1.3.30. I then came here to WINEhq to find a .deb file for 1.3.29. I found it, installed it but yet it was labelled as 1.3.30 in the winecfg>about menu. So I uninstalled that, and used the daily ppa. Code: ppa:ubuntu-wine/daily Yet again, WINE was labelled as 1.3.30 when it should've been 1.3.29 and it wasn't 1.3.29 either because my programs weren't stable the their behaviours were different. So now, I'm stuck with 1.3.30 and I've got more issues than an emo. Wine's cfg won't even let me "test" the sound, so now I have no sound for LFS, Photoshop quits after 1 minute and nothing else wants to start up. SOMEBODY help me either fix the problems, or help me downgrade to 1.3.29. Please. It's very depressing not having sound, and winecfg crashing after pressing the "test" button. Everything was so stable in 1.3.29.
Have you ran and posted regression tests or error information for the various programs so people can see where the problem is to fix? Also, do you have enough drive space to set up a dual boot and try the programs you want with wine 1.3.30 is a distro other than Ubuntu? I did not say that to be rude about your distro choice, use what you want, but many of the posts with 1.3.30 problems seem to have Ubuntu in common and I am wondering if there is a way to separate what problems it may be causing from ones that are part of Wine so that the appropriate people have the info needed to make fixes.
BkS wrote:> > Wine's cfg won't even let me "test" the sound, so now I have no sound for LFS, Photoshop quits after 1 minute and nothing else wants to start up. SOMEBODY help me either fix the problems, or help me downgrade to 1.3.29. Please. >The current version of Wine is 1.3.31. One of the things it does fix is is the crashing-on-start regression that hit a lot of apps in 1.3.30 (that's probably what killed Photoshop for you). As for the sound issue, do you happen to be using the "winepulse" driver? I ask, because your description sounds like http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26271, which was closed as invalid because that driver is unofficial and unsupported. As for how to straighten out your package manager problem, ask on the Ubuntu forum. It is not a Wine issue.
BkS wrote:> Honestly I don't understand it. First Oneiric Ocelot splits Ubuntu users right down the middle, next thing I know WINE is very unstable after the 1.3.30 update. Here's my problem.Microsoft is hiring people to prove that open source software "Linux" is unreliable... its an easy tactic... infiltrate most popular Open Souce software & "Update it" by removing features. so users & serious developers get discouraged with the free powerful open source alternative to Microsoft & Mac. equals = Microsoft stocks go up. Windows is more reliable. haven't you seen Bill Gates purchasing Homer Simpson Internet company? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahhR7VrYwFA
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=68583#68583
Regresion testing its useless if developers are infiltrated by Microsoft workers.
I think you need to check whether or not you have posted and ran error information and regression tests for the same in order to find out what exactly is to be done to solve the problem. Furthermore, it is extremely important that you have enough HDD space so as to setup the dual boot.