New wine repo

[rocky7x]

Hi,

Wouldn't it be interesting to switch Maui from the Ubuntu wine repository (which seems not to be updated), to the official wine repository, where wine-stable is already at version 2.0? As per this article:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/wine-stag...4387.shtml

I've tried it and installing wine-stable at version 2.0 works like a charm. The biggest advantage of this is that M$ Office 2013 can be installed without a problem and works fine However, not with intel GPU, unfortunately. There are workarounds, but they haven't worked for me. But works fine via bumblebee.

[kdemeoz]

Yes interesting! To clarify, are you saying that you did:

Code:

wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'

& then did 2.0 become available for installation? Or, did you download the source code & build/compile it yourself [as you know, i was not courageous enough to do that recently per https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread....3#pid42253 ]?

[rocky7x]

Yes, in the new repo, version 2.0 is package wine-stable

[kdemeoz]

Oh that is good then - thanks. If i do this, would i need to start again on my recent 1.8 WinePrefix of MS Office 2010, or will that simply become 2.0 as a result of doing the PPA process?

[rocky7x]

No need to reinstall Office - all wine prefixes will adapt automatically, when you first start the apps in them.

[kdemeoz]

Ta, good, updated; nice one!

[rocky7x]

Hi,

Wouldn't it be interesting to switch Maui from the Ubuntu wine repository (which seems not to be updated), to the official wine repository, where wine-stable is already at version 2.0? As per this article:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/wine-stag...4387.shtml

I've tried it and installing wine-stable at version 2.0 works like a charm. The biggest advantage of this is that M$ Office 2013 can be installed without a problem and works fine However, not with intel GPU, unfortunately. There are workarounds, but they haven't worked for me. But works fine via bumblebee.

With wine 2.0, the Oibaf ppa repository (Mesa 17 installed) and following workaround, Office 2013 works even on intel hardware (at least for me, with modesetting driver):

1. wine regedit.exe in the Office 2013 prefix
   
2. find key HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct3D/
   
3. create a new DWORD hexa key called MaxVersionGL and assign hexa value 30002 to it.
   

With this, the Office 2013 programs should work even with intel hw, I've tested it a bit, it works, but slower than with nvidia optimus GPU.


Oibaf PPA: https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ub...cs-drivers