Cork Soaker wrote:
> How might one go about installing a second, older, version of Wine on
> one's system?
>
> I'm not sure how to do this as "make install" will replace my current
> version, which I do not want.
>
> Is this possible? I do not want the two Wine versions to mess with each
> other's config files.
>
> Currently running Wine 1.0-rc4 on Ubuntu Hardy.
>
> TIA


OK, so I'm slow, I found "man wine" which makes it look /fairly/ simple.
Has anyone had any success doing this?

Cork Soaker wrote:
> Cork Soaker wrote:
>> How might one go about installing a second, older, version of Wine on
>> one's system?
>>
>> I'm not sure how to do this as "make install" will replace my current
>> version, which I do not want.
>>
>> Is this possible? I do not want the two Wine versions to mess with
>> each other's config files.
>>
>> Currently running Wine 1.0-rc4 on Ubuntu Hardy.
>>
>> TIA
>
>
> OK, so I'm slow, I found "man wine" which makes it look /fairly/ simple.
> Has anyone had any success doing this?


Although I can see how to set separate config folders, I still can't see
how to "install" a second version without hurting the original.
There must be a way!

Cork Soaker wrote:
>> OK, so I'm slow, I found "man wine" which makes it look /fairly/ simple.
>> Has anyone had any success doing this?
>
>
> Although I can see how to set separate config folders, I still can't see
> how to "install" a second version without hurting the original.
> There must be a way!

check the ./configure options with --help
There's usually a selection of options ending in dir allowing you to setup
the directories where the final make install will put everything.

So, if the default install is in /usr/local (which is the one you don't want
to get squished), you could try putting the new one in /opt

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Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> Cork Soaker wrote:
>>> OK, so I'm slow, I found "man wine" which makes it look /fairly/ simple.
>>> Has anyone had any success doing this?
>>
>> Although I can see how to set separate config folders, I still can't see
>> how to "install" a second version without hurting the original.
>> There must be a way!
>
> check the ./configure options with --help
> There's usually a selection of options ending in dir allowing you to setup
> the directories where the final make install will put everything.
>
> So, if the default install is in /usr/local (which is the one you don't want
> to get squished), you could try putting the new one in /opt
>

Hi, thanks for that. --prefix seems to be the option.

Thank you very much. :-)