I followed the directions at https://wine-staging.com/installation.html to install wine-staging on my Debian Jessie platform. However, the result is considerably out of date (version 2.4 rather than 2.9 (or 2.10)), and there appears to be no method of determining what version of wine-staging is available for each of the other Linux platforms mentioned on that web page such as Debian testing = stretch.
Is this lack of an up-to-date version some idiosyncrasy for the Debian Jessie platform or is this a problem for all the Linux distributions covered in the above web page?
Are there plans to start keeping wine-staging installs more up to date for Debian Jessie or is there some other set of directions I should be following to gain access to the latest version of wine-staging? It's been a number of years since I have built wine, and in that era I only bothered with the 32-bit version. So if it turns out the answer is there are no plans to keep the various distro versions of wine-staging up to date so the only way to get an up-to-date version is to build a WoW64 version of the latest wine that has been patched with the wine-staging patches, it would be good to state that in the above page.
Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________
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On 16.06.2017 23:45, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
I followed the directions at https://wine-staging.com/installation.html to install wine-staging on my Debian Jessie platform. However, the result is considerably out of date (version 2.4 rather than 2.9 (or 2.10)), and there appears to be no method of determining what version of wine-staging is available for each of the other Linux platforms mentioned on that web page such as Debian testing = stretch.
Is this lack of an up-to-date version some idiosyncrasy for the Debian Jessie platform or is this a problem for all the Linux distributions covered in the above web page?
Are there plans to start keeping wine-staging installs more up to date for Debian Jessie or is there some other set of directions I should be following to gain access to the latest version of wine-staging? It's been a number of years since I have built wine, and in that era I only bothered with the 32-bit version. So if it turns out the answer is there are no plans to keep the various distro versions of wine-staging up to date so the only way to get an up-to-date version is to build a WoW64 version of the latest wine that has been patched with the wine-staging patches, it would be good to state that in the above page.
Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin
The repositories are up-to-date and currently contain version 2.10 for both the Staging and Development branches. Also see the list of files here:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/pool/main/
If you added our repositories before March 2017, please note that the repository URL has changed. There is no longer a separate repository hosted at repos.wine-staging.com and we recommend all users to switch the WineHQ repositories (which contains the same wine-staging packages). This was also announced on the mailing list and in the news section back then (and there is also a small remark at the top of the installation instructions).
Otherwise, if you are already using the correct repository, I am not sure why you would get such an old version. Did you maybe forget to run "apt-get update", or using a wrong package name? If those hints do not help to fix the issue, please provide the output of "apt-cache policy winehq-staging" to track it down further.
Best regards, Sebastian
On 2017-06-17 00:18+0200 Sebastian Lackner wrote:
The repositories are up-to-date and currently contain version 2.10 for both the Staging and Development branches.
Thanks, Sebastian for that definitive answer that inspired me to double-check, and indeed dpkg --status winehq-staging tells me I currently have 2.9 installed (from earlier this week), and apt-cache show winehq-staging tells me 2.10 is ready to be installed (as you stated). Also, I keep track of each apt-get command result, and those records confirm I installed 2.9.0 originally. So I have no idea how I got the impression it was 2.4.0 from similar commands I ran at the time, and my apologies for the noise about this.
Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________
Linux-powered Science __________________________
On 2017-06-16 15:48-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
So I have no idea how I got the impression it was 2.4.0 from similar commands I ran at the time, and my apologies for the noise about this.
This has been bugging me, but now I have finally figured out how I likely came to the wrong conclusion on the version. apt-cache show winehq-staging shows every version in reverse order from 2.10 to 2.4, and those first results must have scrolled off the screen. Conclusion, always pipe apt-cache show results to "less". :-)
Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________
Linux-powered Science __________________________
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