Stable Wine?

English Games
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I was really excited to try openSUSE 12.2 when it came out… until I tried to play an old-school game from GOG.com.

The only Wine version I could find in the repositories was an unstable version! None of my games would run. I’m generally technically inclined but my brain is rotten from 20 years of using Windows, and while I like to tinker, I’d like my OS to work out of the box, so I at least have an opportunity to break it first. If it starts broken, that’s no fun.

I know I can compile Wine 1.4 from source, but wouldn’t it make more sense (given all the hype about 12.2’s stability) to offer stable versions of software in the repositories, and people who want unstable versions can compile them from source?

If there’s a repository that offers Wine 1.4 to openSUSE 12.2 users, or if it’s in the 12.2 repositories and I was just being too dumb that day to find it, I’d much appreciate someone pointing that out.

I really like openSUSE and I’d love to come back to it (currently using Ubuntu), but I need stable Wine.

Thanks!

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The wine version that comes with the distro is the stable version, i.e. 1.5.6-2.1.2, don’t know why you think you need 1.4

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According to WineHQ - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X Wine 1.4.1 is “Stable” and Wine 1.5.x is “Development” (meaning, unstable). I think I need 1.4.1 because my games ran on opensuse 12.1 (Wine 1.4), they run on Ubuntu (Wine 1.4.1) and they don’t run on openSUSE 12.2 (Wine 1.5.x).

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OpenSUSE offers an ironically “Unstable” repo of the “Stable” build Click ]
If that doesn’t work it’s probably the updated packages from the last suse release to this release that broke your game, in any case you SHOULD report any bug to WineHQ with as much information as possible to help everyone in the community.

also,

The Official SUSE bleeding edge builds work really well for me BTW, [1.5.14 ]](http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/Emulators:Wine/openSUSE_12.2/wine.ymp?base=openSUSE%3A12.2&query=wine)

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Awesome, thanks much! I’ll be sure to try this when I get the chance (need to install openSUSE again)!

It’s been a while since I’ve used Wine 1.5, maybe the latest build will work better. I might try that first!

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Is that for the horses to drink, or for you to drink after you have been working in the stable?

(Sorry, couldn’t resist)

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It’s for the jockeys, actually. I’ve been hired to rig a race.

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Doesn’t PlayOnLinux help utilising the possibilities of having several wine versions installed simultaneously?

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I have openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 with GNOME 3.4, updated all my system packages and installed latest Wine available in the repos (1.5.16). It didn’t give a **** with the games that used to run beautifully (Braid and Limbo). From working well on 12.1 x86_64 using Wine 1.4 now 1.5 crazy-crashes just as I try to run the games.

Already left a message in Wine forums and, almost as always, no answer… Hell, sometimes I really think I’m subtly being kicked out of the forums there (and really don’t know why), because obviously they know my username…