Wine (Was Budget-priced Windows license)

[Grizzly]

24 May 2022  at 12:17, Liam Proven wrote:
Re: Wine (Was Budget-priced Windows (at least in part)

>On Tue, 24 May 2022 at 12:09, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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>> Any pointers to running the update of Wine (think I'm a couple behind on 7.7
>> when 7.9 is out)

>Oh boy.

Yeh 8.0 cant be far away it seems that Wine gets a new dev/stageing release 
very quickly lately 

>Actually, no, I don't. I confine myself to the stable release channel,
>so I am still on 7.0. I will try 8.0 when it's out. 7 is working well
>for me, and runs the last usable version of MS Word (2003) flawlessly.

I had Office 2k3 (well Word, Excel and Access) running flawlessly, and still 
would, i made an error at install time, I forgot to add the help for VBA, and 
it was hard to go back and add it post install (a problem I sometimes see in 
native Windows)

>Right now that is all I _need_ so I've stayed on #stable. Previously I
>needed Crossover Office for Word 2003, so I am happy.

I have a script that adds stable, from 

https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ $(lsb_release -c -s) main"

which is AFAIK not the same stable as from the normal Ubumtu repository?

but if I already have Dev or Staging it updates that, suits my needs as I have 
a number of different Ubuntu boxies and Ubuntu versions

>I may downgrade to Word 97, which does all I need and more. I remember
>it being considered bloated when it came out, but it is about 14MB in
>total, so not any more it isn't... but I have a portrait screen, and I
>remember that 97 could not handle that.

I cant remember now what changes there were (Office) 97 -> 2k -> 2k3, I do 
remember that 2k was a vast improvement over 97, I would have stayed on 2k but 
at some point it would not install and I moved to 2k3, as for 2k7-2k20 forget 
it