Stuck on wine 9.19-1.1 because wine 9.20-1.1 is broken

[mhartigan]

I realize that breakages within wine are for the wine forums and not for Opensuse folks to troubleshoot.

My question to Opensuse community is how do i use Zypper or YaST to mark an app as ‘Protected - Do Not Modify’? I try with right click and selecting that option within YaST, and then commit my changes with ‘accept’, but every time i come back to YaST, the icon by wine is a green check mark, not an orange lock icon.

If someone knows what I’m doing wrong, I would really appreciate some help.

I’m using Tumbleweed, and wine issue is this: when I update my system to wine 9.20, my windows software opens for an instant, then closes. If i roll back to a snapshot with wine 9.19, my software works as intended.

Thanks for any help or advice. I’m stuck.

[asdhio]

but every time i come back to YaST, the icon by wine is a green check mark, not an orange lock icon.

That’s weird - locking packages like that works for me on Leap.

[hcvv]

@asdhio

locking packages like that works for me on Leap.

Same here on Leap 15.6. Locked the apache2 package (mind: these are packages, not “apps”). The “lock” icon appeared. “Accept” and new start of YaST → software Management and the lock is still there.

Maybe a Tumbleweed user can test similar?

[amiya]

If YaST isn’t working right, “sudo zypper addlock PACKAGENAME” should do it.

[mhartigan]

that’s very helpful, thank you.

How do I undo the lock via command line?

[hui]

man zypper

zypper removelock aka zypper rl

[mhartigan]

Both are working fine via command line.

I couldn’t find it within man zypper but yes, thanks.

I locked wine at 9.19-1.1 and all its dependencies too. I’ll report back on whether I’m able to update my system and successfully use software via wine.

[mhartigan]

Just posting some additional details… freezing wine and all its dependencies, then running sudo zypper ref && sudo zypper dup has updated my system and wine still works.