shmerl: wine-devel just installs it in /opt/wine-devel
winehq-devel provides global access to the above through symlinks in /usr/bin
ls -la /usr/bin/wine
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jan 4 22:21 /usr/bin/wine -> /opt/wine-devel/bin/wine
You can't have two versions of wine used in /usr/bin that's why installing winehq-devel will uninstall stable one. However wine-devel can easily coexist. If you want to have multiple Wines installed, just launch things manually settting needed environment variables.
Thanks a lot. This gave me an idea. Can I
create a
winedev command and use it whenever I want to use the development version?
Here is my plan:
1. I am going to install wine-devel by "sudo apt install wine-devel". So it won't touch the stable version.
2. I am going to create a
winedev inside /usr/bin/ that will lead to /opt/wine-devel/bin/wine enabling the global access. I will need help on that one.
3. Now I'll be able to type "wine example.exe" whenever I want to use the stable version and "winedev example.exe" whenever I want to use the development version.
Would that work? I am going to test this when I am back home. I am just asking for advice in advance.
BTW, I hope I am not sabotaging Adam's topic. Maybe I should open a separate topic.