[Bug 26985] 1by1 Player version 1.74 freezes under normal use

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26985

--- Comment #36 from Jörg Höhle  2012-02-21 15:07:24 CST ---
> I'm an "end user" of Wine

Fair enough
> and I report bugs when I encounter problems

Excellent
> I don't know if it's possible to install different versions of Wine on Ubuntu.

It is.  Hopefully you'll find a web page that describes it because I won't go
into details that I have not tried out line for line.  Basically, you can use
dpkg-deb --extract to extract the files from a .deb archive into your current
directory.  Since Wine is self-relocatable, it'll run from anywhere.

Then you use
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-1.2 /path/to/wine-1.2.x/bin/wine winecfg
etc. to manage different prefixes, one for each version.  I have approx. 20
such .wine directories...
Then I use symbolic links such that big programs are located once only on the
HD, outside the .wine directories.  Only their registry entries are duplicated.
That's it!