Downgrading Wine 9 on Debian based distros

[LawnBoy]

I finally found a guide to installing the Wine version of your choice on Debian based distros. I have verified this guide on LinuxMint v22, it should also work for Ubuntu v24.04.

https://linuxgenie.net/install-wine-9-debian-12/

I know, I know, it starts out having you install Wine v9. Do it, unless it is already installed. To check if it is already installed, go to a terminal and type

Wine --version

The guide will show you how to downgrade later on.

I can now use v1.2.2 of the LMMS AppImage to load VST2 plugins into Vestige.

[LawnBoy]

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First, both Ubuntu and LinuxMint are downstream versions of Debian. Debian holds the master repositories.
Ubuntu uses its own repositories, LM uses Ubuntu repositories.

For whatever reason, Ubuntu v24.04 (and therefore, LM v22) has decided they don't want you to run any version of Wine earlier than 9.0. So when you map to the Ubuntu repositories, earlier versions are simply not available.

What the above link shows is how to map to the Debian repositories, which contains all of the versions of Wine that are considered viable. You can then install the Wine version of your choice. I went with Wine v8.0.2.

[musikbear]

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Very good! Hope this can be a help for linux users! 👍

[Gps]

Just for info I seem to be using wine 9 but I am on openSUSE.

guus@localhost:~> wine --version
wine-9.0 (Staging)
guus@localhost:~>

So wine staging, and it is working fine.