Installing old wine version with apt-get/synaptic on Ubuntu 8.04

ErV · 10-08-2008, 11:20 PM

Hello.

I have simple question (or at least I think so).
I have machine with Ubuntu 8.04 and I need to install old version of wine (wine-0.9.53) on it AND forbid ever upgrading wine. How this can be done with apt-get/synaptic? Currently machine have latest version of wine that is upgraded automatically when update is available.

Of course I could do it by compiling application manually, but how can this be done with Ubuntu package managers? I checked manpages of apt-get and didn't notice any version-related options.

David the H. · 10-09-2008, 04:11 AM

Go to the winehq deb archive page and download the deb package that you want. Then install it using dpkg, not apt: "sudo dpkg -i winepackage.deb". This will give you the wine version that you want. If it asks you about removing an older version of wine or winelib, just let it; the package you're installing will have everything you need.

As for pinning, synaptic has a package pinning feature that you access with "Package menu >> Lock Version". But I believe apt-get will ignore this, so if you ever upgrade through apt you'll also have to use the apt pinning feature as explained here.

ErV · 10-09-2008, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David the H.

Go to the winehq deb archive page and download the deb package that you want. Then install it using dpkg, not apt: "sudo dpkg -i winepackage.deb". This will give you the wine version that you want. If it asks you about removing an older version of wine or winelib, just let it; the package you're installing will have everything you need.

As for pinning, synaptic has a package pinning feature that you access with "Package menu >> Lock Version". But I believe apt-get will ignore this, so if you ever upgrade through apt you'll also have to use the apt pinning feature as explained here.

Thanks!
That's all information I needed.