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Old 09-09-2005, 01:31 AM   #1
dexmax
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upgrading Wine? newbie needs help


WARNING: NOOB Questions below

I installed wine which came with my Mandrake10 CDs.

Some games and applications work, though no sound yet.

But since it came with an old release of wine, how do i go about upgrading WINE?
do i just run the new WINE .rpm? do I need to remove the older version installed before installing the new one? As per WineHQs FAQ, config will not change, so do i need to "tailor" the config again for the new version?

BTW, I want to run games such as Counterstrike, Warcraft, Gunbound, Ragnarok, MuOnline, etc.

So far, MuOnline works, but the fonts are unreadable, no sound, and resolution cannot be set. Resolution is stuck at 640x480.

The warcraft installer doesn't work also.

Im hoping with the new release, everything will work.

Thanks!!!!

If everything works, ill migrate the whole network(15PCs) from WINDOWS to LINUX!!!
** and perhaps the other 100+ workstations if I have the time**
 
Old 09-09-2005, 02:40 AM   #2
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if this is mainly for games, then wine isn't really likely to cut it. instead you'd be best of investing in a copy of cedega, (formerly winex) which is specifially targetted at games support, and apparently works great.
 
Old 09-09-2005, 11:59 PM   #3
yubimusubi
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Invest?! Well, yeah, I guess that might work...

However if you want bleeding edge (at the cost of slightly less than optimal stability... /me has not had any problems with it) you might want to get the CVS version.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...p?articleid=45

Also, I believe it would be more practical for you to install from source rather than from rpm...I don't want to start a distro war, but I never got rpms to work with mandrake ^-^;;
 
  


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