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How to update Wine

Asked by opadeboer

After installation of 8.10 I have wine version 1.0.1 and it is never updated. How is that possible?

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Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan) said : 		#1

Go here
http://winehq.org/download/deb

Hope this helps
Shane

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

Wine 1.0.1 is the latest stable release!

There have been a lot more testing releases but many of these haven't been properly tested or have been found to have regressions! Try them but at your own risk and post bug-reports to the Wine forums if you find anything. We need more people testing these beta releases in order to make some progress with Wine which has stalled completely after the rush of getting 1.0 out.

Wine is a critical issue for linux and is still a major blocker stopping people from taking up linux so any little thing you can do to help would be great helpful.

Also it's fairly easy to get back to the stable version again afterwards
Good luck! Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

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opadeboer (opadeboer) said : 		#3

The update was successfull. My problem was that the Wine Windows program Loader did not work.
After starting the curser was like a turning ball, but after a few seconds it changed in the pionter again. No message etc.
This problem is not gone after the update of Wine.

The history is that I started with Ubuntu 7.10 and every thing was ok. Then I upgraded to 8.04 and also no problem.
When 8.10 came out I formatted my disc and started from scratch. Since tha time I have tha problem. May be it is a lokalization problem, because in the wine directory I did'n find a Program Files map but instead "Programma Bestanden" map. Even Microsoft doesnot lokalize this map and keep it always as Program Files.
To solve this problem I will start with the 7.10 or 8.04 version again.
Regards
Gerben de Boer

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Best Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

Err, i wouldn't be completely sure about that. The translation Teams do get a bit keen sometimes ;) If you are going to download something from the Ubuntu website try to finish it today because tomorrow and for the next two weeks the servers will be very slow and heavy with all the traffic over the 9.04 release. If you can torrent then it might be worth upgrading to 9.04 as there seem to have been some significant changes. Straight forward download will be almost impossible though, i imagine ;)

The Wine site will be fine to check and maybe some forums there could help?

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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opadeboer (opadeboer) said : 		#5

Thanks Tom
I will try to install 9.04
regards
Gerben

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#6

Sorry the actual release is in a couple of days so you've still got time to try other plans first.
Good luck with this
Regards from
Tom :)

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opadeboer (opadeboer) said : 		#7

Hello Tom,
I can only install programs in Wine when I place the exe in the .wine
directory. The wine program loader doenś install a .exe file from my desktop
ore personal map. Thatś the problem now. I tried Aldfaer in this way and it
worked.
So that is my work-around. Maybe you can help me further,Kind regards
Gerben

2009/4/20 Tom <email address hidden>

> Your question #67806 on Ubuntu changed:
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> Tom posted a new comment:
> Sorry the actual release is in a couple of days so you've still got time to
> try other plans first.
> Good luck with this
> Regards from
> Tom :)
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opadeboer (opadeboer) said : 		#8

The problem with the Windows Program Loader is solved.
The problem was that I did not add to the stations in the configuration of Wine: e:/home/gerben

The defined statiosn where: c: ../drive_c
                                             d: /media/cdrom0
In this case you can only use the Windows program loader for .exe files on a cd-rom or from a directory on drive_c

Kind regards
Gerben de Boer

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#9

Brilliant, nicely fixed and thanks for getting back to us with the answer there
Thanks and regards from
Tom :)