Wine version

Al3rt! · 2008-02-24 01:15:23

Hi all!

Is some repository for Arch linux, with latest stable Wine version? Because in official Arch repository is "too old version"

humanzoo · 2008-02-24 02:43:12

Nothing official yet... but I've found that you only need to bump the version in the PKGBUILD and rebuild it from there.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

That might be a little daunting for some at first, but once you've got the hang of it, you'll be building packages all over the place.

Zibi1981 · 2008-02-24 20:44:13

I also noticed that [extra] has a not very recent version of Wine

[zibi1981@felipe etc]$ pacman -Ss wine
extra/wine 0.9.53-1
    Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs

In AUR there is a PKGBUILD called bin32-wine-suse 0.9.56-1, although I don't know what suse mean in this case. Will it work if I would compile and install Wine using this PKGBUILD? Have anyone tried this one?

kensai · 2008-02-24 21:29:40

The maintainer have said he will look into updating it shortly. He is a busy guy as all the developers are. Sometimes, the best way is to ask them nicely about an update, like in my case, I needed this update to test an application which I believe might be benefited from the new version. I know there is PKGBUILD, but I tend to run on the official way. Well, whenever possible.

Last edited by kensai (2008-02-24 21:30:01)

Dheart · 2008-02-24 22:04:41

Here's the PKGBUILD that I use:

# Custom wine pkgbuild by Dheart.
pkgname=wine
pkgver=0.9.56
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs"
url="http://www.winehq.com"
arch=('i686')
license=('LGPL')
depends=('freetype2' 'fontconfig' 'libjpeg' 'libungif' 'alsa-lib' 'glut' 'libldap' 'libxslt' 'lcms' 'libxxf86dga' 'freeglut' \
         'libxinerama' 'libxcursor' 'libxrandr' 'libxrender' 'libxdamage')
makedepends=('alsa-lib' 'sane' 'fontforge' 'flex' 'bison')
source=(http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wine/wine-$pkgver.tar.bz2)

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-opengl --with-x
  make depend || return 1
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install || return 1
  # expand conflicts with textutils ( doesn't exist anymore ? )
  # mv $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/expand $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/wine-expand || return 1
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/etc/wine
  # mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/etc/profile.d
  # cp -r $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/documentation/samples $startdir/pkg/etc/wine
}
#md5sums=('1f2a34569b4a76eb270f5ad206a464b8')

The difference between this and the official is:
a) 0.9.53 (the official PKGBUILD's wine version) is changed to 0.9.56 (so that it builds 0.9.56...)
b) the md5sums are comented out because I got sick of changing them for every new version...

So basicly the official PKGBUILD for the 0.9.56 version should look like this (except the md5sums part.).

The admins are busy, they're having real life, (and in my country we, students, have really hard exams now, so most of us are busy studing so if there're students on the dev team (and I'm sure there are) they're probably just very busy studing (or doing something else it doesn't matter.)) so I think we users should be able to understand them.
Besides: This is an advanced users distro, meaning noone here should be afraid to build something his/herself and also it's very easy to change the version in the official PKGBUILD and comment out the md5sums. Also this is covered in the wiki.

brebs · 2008-02-24 22:25:22

Zibi1981 wrote:

what suse means

The opensuse distro.

The point of bin32-wine-suse is to provide up-to-date, working wine on *x86_64*. It downloads binaries, because Arch's x86_64 is not multilib and therefore cannot compile the 32-bit wine.

SuSE is used because they provide up-to-date binaries.

Zibi1981 · 2008-02-25 00:03:50

Thanks for the explanation brebs. I've already compiled Wine with PKGBUILD from this topic

Al3rt! · 2008-02-25 21:39:00

Gods blessing for people who update wine version to 0.9.56 in repository!!!

kensai · 2008-02-25 21:46:26

Dale Blount, he kindly accepted to upgrade it, after asking him nicely, thats the way to do things, if you need a package updated, not for the pure "I want bleeding edge" reason, just ask the developer that maintains it. Developers are very busy people, and wine is a package that gets updated every two weeks, so I guess is time consuming to maintain.

Al3rt! · 2008-02-25 22:39:42

I have got one personal reason for add new version to repository- In 0.9.53 installer of Morrowind GOTY freeze before end. I bought this game last week, and can play it. Now is not any impediment THX to developers!

Zibi1981 · 2008-03-12 09:35:49

So, we have Wine version 0.9.57 available on the project site for about 5 days now, but still not in [extra]...

jb · 2008-03-13 01:16:29

You may not want to get hung up about a 5 day delay, considering I've seen it get up to 3 versions behind (which means ~1.5 months).

Allan · 2008-03-13 03:09:14

There was a time when people complained wine was updated too much because compatibility changed frequently between releases.....

Anyway, most simple updates are just bump the package version, change/remove md5sums and rebuild. If you desperately need the latest version, do it yourself. As kensai said above, the developers are busy people and will get to it eventually.

dabski · 2008-03-13 05:28:39

Or for those people out their who are as lazy as I am, just go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … ge_id=6301 and grab Slackware's wine package. Then extract it to your usr dir and your done. I got sick of waiting for Arch's wine updates as well and find that Slackware's package is usually out in under 5 days

hacosta · 2008-03-13 05:33:59

dabski wrote:

Or for those people out their who are as lazy as I am, just go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … ge_id=6301 and grab Slackware's wine package. Then extract it to your usr dir and your done. I got sick of waiting for Arch's wine updates as well and find that Slackware's package is usually out in under 5 days

and now pacman doesn't know about wine. sure, you could easily get a list of the installed files by looking at the slackware package, but i can hardly recommend this procedure.

NoOneImportant · 2008-03-13 06:30:44

All I did was raise the package version and remove the md5sum in the PKGBUILD (from abs). (And that was a week ago.)

C'mon people, it's not that hard.

Last edited by NoOneImportant (2008-03-13 06:31:17)

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