[Wine] Is wine 0.9.22 the only working

Tijl Coosemans tijl at ulyssis.org
Sun Jan 14 04:34:07 CST 2007


On Saturday 13 January 2007 14:30, Ioannis Nousias wrote:
> > Few days ago I see my wine version is very old so I
> > decided to upgrade to 0.9.29 but...
> > softwares I used perfectly with 0.9.22 don't work at
> > all with recent wine versions. :-/
>
> try this:
> 1. back-up your ~/.wine directory. You could do the following.
>     tar cfz wine.backup.tgz ~/.wine
>     or simply move it to some other place
> 2. delete ~/.wine folder and run winecfg to re-build a new one.
>     rm -rf ~/.wine
> 3. install whatever software you were using before
> 
> I know this is not a proper solution. One should not wipe out the entire 
> installation every time an upgrade is in place.

see wineprefixcreate(1)



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