[SOLVED] Downgrading Wine versions?

DWilliams · 2010-02-13 22:53:43

The game I'm trying to play keeps crashing after several minutes of play. Upon researching the problem, it seems that this is a confirmed problem with Wine version 1.1.38, which is the version currently in the AUR. Downgrading to 1.1.37 supposedly fixes the problem.

How do I do this, however? I know pacman has a downgrade feature but as I understand it only works off cached packages, and I never had 1.1.37 installed on this system so I don't think it can downgrade for me. On the AUR page I didn't see any link to old versions. Supposedly the game in question works flawlessly under 1.1.37 (it had gold and platinum appDB ratings on old versions, dropped to bronze with the latest).

Last edited by DWilliams (2010-02-14 00:14:15)

droog · 2010-02-13 23:09:32

Theres a downgrade page in the wiki, you could just do this if i686
from the arch rollback machine repo.

pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/wine-1.1.37-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

DWilliams · 2010-02-13 23:11:44

droog wrote:

Theres a downgrade page in the wiki, you could just do this if i686
from the arch rollback machine repo.
pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/wine-1.1.37-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

I'm on Arch64. If I replace the instances of i686 in that URL with x86_64 will I get the appropriate package?

PirateJonno · 2010-02-13 23:36:03

you should edit the PKGBUILD for bin32-wine or whatever package you're using to point the source to that package (change the md5sums as well)

DWilliams · 2010-02-13 23:43:53

PirateJonno wrote:

you should edit the PKGBUILD for bin32-wine or whatever package you're using to point the source to that package (change the md5sums as well)

Alright I see the part of PKGBUILD you're talking about. I changed the source line but how do I get the sum for it other than downloading it and calculating it myself?

Also, it says "sha256sums" and not "md5sum". I assume that I cannot calculate the md5sum and have it work there?

droog · 2010-02-13 23:47:15

if you changed the version in the pkgbuild
makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD
will download the source and add the md5 to the pkgbuild.
then just use makepkg normally

DWilliams · 2010-02-14 00:14:00

Alright thanks for the help everyone. I successfully downgraded my Wine package and the game works great now!

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[SOLVED] Downgrading Wine versions?

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