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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I saw this new version, published a week ago.

wine-10.18-2.eln152

Can I now safely install Fedora 43 in my kde/plasma desktop?

Thx for answering (still new in the Linux world…)

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If you are on Gnome or KDE I would wait another month.
(However this if for reasons other that the Wine conflict you originally posted about)

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Hi Fabio,
Regarding recreation of 32-bit wine prefixes, do you know if this applies to Proton prefixes as well? I’m assuming yes, but does Steam/Proton create 32-bit or 64-bit prefixes?

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Proton from Steam is a separate Wine distribution that manges its on Wine prefixes, so it should be unaffected by this change. I don’t know when / if Valve will switch Proton to the “new Wow64 mode”, but it hasn’t happened yet.

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There’s been some movement on Wow64 for Proton on Github, presumably in preparation for the Steam Frame since it uses ARM64. If they ever enable it by default, it likely won’t be until after that hardware launch.

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