Joerg Hoehle wrote: > Hi, > > Wine documentation says that it can be installed anywhere, locate its > libraries and just run. This is certainly true for self-compiled > sources which could e.g. be run from their compiled location. > > I wonder if this is also possible with pre-built Debian/Ubuntu binary > packages. Normally, Debian installs exactly one version of a package > in /usr/. > > Is there some possibility to use multiple versions concurrently, e.g. > dpkg -i --root=/home/wine9.09 wine0.9.19.deb > dpkg -i --root=/home/wine20050725 wine20050725.deb > or something similar? Does anybody have experience with this? > > How to mix/match both a regularly installed wine in /usr and a local > one in /home and be sure /home/wine does not use /usr/wine? > > /home/wine9.09/bin/wine foo.exe > log1 > /hmoe/wine2005/bin/wine foo.exe > log2 > > That would be valuable for regression testing. > > Thanks for your help, > Jorg Hohle I ran wine-git then copied the result into a directory called "wine-test" and ran it from there for regression testing: see http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine The top-level directory contains a symlink to bin/wine. In direct answer to your question, as I am using an RPM distro, I really can't. But it is quite possible to run "./configure --prefix=/usr/local" which is the default for Wine, for one version and "./configure --prefix=/usr" which is the default for my distro (Mandriva) for another, and then specify which executable you want on the command line. This involves an actual installation. What I did above omitted the "make install" step. It looks as though your suggestion should work, provided you can run dpkg that way. Have a look at man dpkg. Debian seems to have man pages for everything, many more than I have. HTH somehow, Doug. -- If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. - Moshe Dayan. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
