How do I use compiled Wine with PlayOnLinux?

[martini1179]

I had to compiled Wine (1.2.1) in order to include a specific patch. I'd like to install PoL to let me easily install other games, but I don't know how/if I can install PoL since it always asks to install Wine from the repos, and I don't want to overwrite my custom Wine install.

[martini1179]

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[Hotch_Potch]

Try to install pol after your custom made wine through symantec. All vanilla packages will be accessable through pol interface, though system wine will be also present.

Please, tell if you find a way to add several custom versions of wine simultaneously.

Sorry for poor language.

[martini1179]

Try to install pol after your custom made wine. All vanilla packages will be accessable through pol interface, though system wine will be also present.

Please, tell if you find a way to add several custom versions of wine simultaneously.

Sorry for poor language.

Your language is fine. But I don't think it's possible to install PoL after a custom/compiled Wine, at least not through Synaptic. The problem is that the system will try to install Wine from the repos, sine Wine is a dependency of PoL. This would overwrite my custom Wine directory.

I wonder if I could just rename ~/.wine to something else and have everything still work?

[philnice]

Please, tell if you find a way to add several custom versions of wine simultaneously.

Have you tried Q4wine? It claims it can handle multiple wine versions at the same time. I have it installed but never needed to do that so far. It's in synaptic.