[SOLVED] Update has broken Wine

[gm10]

Well, I was prompted to install an extra Wine package (the development thing) by the terminal output when I ran winecfg, so that's what I did and it worked. That's all I know, I'm not a guru.

Looks like you and your Danish friend have got several wine editions of different versions installed now then (looks like a mix of wine-stable 3, wine-stable 4 and wine-development 3.6). Lovely mess. I guess as long as it works, although personally I'd timeshift back or wipe the whole thing and install only the version I want.

[Summerof69]

Well, I was prompted to install an extra Wine package (the development thing) by the terminal output when I ran winecfg, so that's what I did and it worked. That's all I know, I'm not a guru.

Looks like you and your Danish friend have got several wine editions of different versions installed now then (looks like a mix of wine-stable 3, wine-stable 4 and wine-development 3.6). Lovely mess.

If you'd like assistance with cleaning it up let me know, otherwise I guess as long as it works...

? What are you talking about? I don't have anything of wine version 4 installed

[gm10]

? What are you talking about? I don't have anything of wine version 4 installed

You mean because you rolled back? I was referring to the apt dist-ugprade output you posted above, that had all those elements I listed, so I'm assuming that'll be the state for everyone who applied the upgrade.

[clem]

Hi everyone,

The release notes were updated to describe how to install WINE and how to upgrade from version 3 to version 4.

Here's a summary of it.

1. Apply all updates to bring Wine to version 4

2. Install wine-installer to add the missing packages:

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apt install --install-recommends wine-installer

3. List the remaining v3 packages:

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dpkg -l | grep wine | grep "3\."

4. Remove these packages as they are no longer needed.

5. If PlayOnLinux was removed during step 1, reinstall it.

You should end up with WINE v4 with support for both 32bit and 64bit Windows binaries.

Note: I preferred not to automate steps 3 and 4 with package conflicts because the packaging for Wine 3 in Ubuntu 18.04 not only differs significantly with upstream WineHQ, it also differs significantly with previous and later Ubuntu releases. It's also not one version of Wine we need to take into account, but the fact that some users might also be running -development packages. I didn't want to add extra complexity and additional clauses on top of it.