F43 upgrade and Wine or not yet?

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Hi,

I have read on this forum that there is a problem with F43 and an installed Wine. If I understand this correctly this is caused by a packaging problem.

So for now, I don’t dare to upgrade to F43, because I have several winapps installed.

My questions are:

  1. How do I know that this packaging problem is solved? Discover only tells me that I can upgrade to F43.
  2. Possible solution is to remove Wine, upgrade to F43 and re-install Wine. If I do that, do I have to re-install my winapps?

Thanks; still finding my way in the Fedora/KDE Plasma world.

Paul

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Welcome!

The upgrade problem is not yet resolved, the wine package maintainer is still working on it. You can see new updates for the wine package appearing at the top of the list in the updates service (bodhi) when they’re published.

If you apply the workaround (uninstalling wine-core.x86_64 and wine-core.i686, do the upgrade, and reinstall wine), this will not affect your installed wine prefixes. Beware that if you have 32-bit Wine prefixes, they might need to be recreated with the new Wine version.

Arch Linux made a similar transition to “new WoW64 mode” Wine recently, and they note some caveats in their blog post: https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-and-wine-staging/

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