Re: tools/wineinstall

[Vincent Béron]

Le mar 07/12/2004 à 21:21, Christian Britz a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> the script tools/wineinstall suggest to uninstall wine first if you
> update an existing installation.
>
> This makes senses but it is uncomfortable that the script doesn't offer
> the option to do that for the user. You always have to su before
> installing a new version

That's because it's unable to determine how it was installed in the
first place, and where the files are located. The "wine" program itself
is usually easy to find, but not necessarily so for the dlls and other
installed files.

rpm -e, the equivalent under Debian, make uninstall (from original
source tree), etc. are all different ways to install Wine.

Vincent