Stable is good! That's why I like the
CentOS/
SL/
RHEL distrobutions. But sometimes you need to kick it up a notch and go more recent with specific packages. It might be an
office suite update or a
Xen update or
even a PHP update; it doesn't matter, you just need some part that is, well, more recent. This time it's
wine. And, instead of version wine-1.2 stable something, you get to most recent and kick-ass version 1.3 something. I can say that the wine-1.3 is much better at handling the oddities of running the
most recent Google Windows Picasa version. Let's face it, the
Linux version 3.0 is OK, but WAYYYY dated. Besides, the face recognition is much better in
Picasa 3.8. Enough fluff; down to business. Start off with some good information from the
CentOS RPMForge link
and make sure to set up either
priorities or
ProtectBase. Get
familiar with RPMForge/Repoforge. Then install it the important repository:
(32bit)
rpm -ihv http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
(64bit)
rpm -ihv http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
By the way, this wine upgrade also works with
CentOS/
SL/
RHEL version 5.x. Just substitute "el5" for"el6" above.
Get rid of the old:
yum remove wine\*
In with the new:
yum install wine --disablerep=\* --enablerepo=rpmforge-testing
All done! Time to pay attention to the
St. Louis Cardinals as they play for the World Series
World Series against Texas ;)
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