[Wine]Proper way of updating winetools?

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage at gmx.de
Mon Feb 21 15:11:58 CST 2005


Joachim von Thadden wrote:

> Am Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 06:47:51PM +0100 schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage:
> 
>>So what I did:
>>1. rpm -Uvh wine-20041201-1fc3winehq.i686.rpm
>>2. rpm -Uvh winetools-2.1.0-jo.i386.rpm
>>3. wt ((now of course as a non-root user))
>>4. Goto 'Base setup'
>>5. Create a fake Windows drive
>>6. True Type Font Arial
>>7. DCOM98
>>8. Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 German
>>9. Save your wine directory
>>10. exit
>>11. Manually install further sw, like irfanview ...
>>
>>All installed software run as expected!
>>Now new winetools version 2.11 appears on the scene:
>>12. rpm -Uvh winetools-2.1.1-jo.i386.rpm
>>
>>Installed sw still run als expected.
>>
>>13. Starting winetools ('winetools') gives:
>>'Your config is not the one that comes with recent WineTools.'
>>'You should copy WineTools config.211 to .wine/config.'
>>'Shall I do that for you?'
>>Giving 'Yes' starts WineTools, and that's precisely where my question 
>>comes in:
>>
>>What are the nexts steps to take, and in which order, if I want to keep 
>>my old (pre-2.11) installation with all installed software?
> 
> 
> You don't have to do anything. WineTools already changed to the new
> config. Your Base setup is OK, should not be repeated and you don't have
> to do anything further. Look into "Install tested software" and enjoy
> the new programs you can install with it.

Thanks, that clarifies a lot. So, after having installed a new version 
of winetools, the only thing left to complete the update is to fire up 
wintetools and make it copy the new config (my step 13 mentioned above) 
- or do that manually.
Klaus



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