[Wine] After update and compilation of Wine - version isn't changed

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 15:40:39 CDT 2008


On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:25 PM, dimesio <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>> No. If you already installed it and do another make install, it'll
>> overwrite the old one, assuming you didn't use different install
>> prefixes or something screwy.
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> Really? I seem to remember seeing more than one thread (besides this one) where the person had to uninstall the old version before the new one would install properly. (Though perhaps they all fell into the category of "something screwy.")
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Assuming they both used the git source. If they had used some modified
wine source, installed that, then tried to install vanilla wine,
something screwy may happen. Or installing from a deb, then
overwriting with a source install, etc.



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