wine

[Stephen M. Webb]

On 2016-10-29 06:47 AM, Norbert de Jonge wrote:
> Is there any way you can get a more recent wine than 1.6.2 in the apt
> repository?
> 
> Wine 1.6.2 was released more than 2.5 years ago, which in Wine-time is
> pretty ancient.

$ rmadison wine
 wine | 1.4-0ubuntu4       | precise/universe         | amd64, i386
 wine | 1.4-0ubuntu4.1     | precise-updates/universe | amd64, i386
 wine | 1.8.5-1ubuntu1     | yakkety/universe         | source
 wine | 1.8.5-1ubuntu1     | zesty/universe           | source
 wine | 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4   | trusty/universe          | amd64, i386
 wine | 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu8   | vivid/universe           | amd64, i386
 wine | 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu8.1 | vivid-updates/universe   | amd64, i386
 wine | 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu14  | xenial/universe          | amd64, i386

So, recent Ubuntu uses WINE 1.8.5...  if you want versions of packages newer than the release of Ubuntu you are using,
check out backports [1].


[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

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Stephen M. Webb  <stephen.webb at canonical.com>