Any advice on getting a current (or at least not embarrassingly old) version winetricks installed?

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Hi, fairly new to Manjaro and Desktop Linux in general.

Lutris is failing to invoke winetricks complaining it’s too old. Protontricks complains too with:

warning: You are running winetricks-20210206-next, latest upstream is winetricks-20220411!

Which means the version languishing in the Manjaro repositories is now over a year old, a really long time in gaming and WINE terms.

The AUR winetricks-git package is almost as old, so no help there.

But the arch version of winetricks in multilib is 20220328-1, much more recent, according to:
https://archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/winetricks/

Why is the Manjaro version of winetricks, a critical tool for getting WINE applications to run, so out of date? According to winetricks I should be getting is 20210825-1, which is old but not as old as what I have.

OK, after further digging… pamac claims it is installing 20210825-1, however if I run winetricks --version I get:

20210206-next - sha256sum: 0769bbcdbd92c407f4eacaa85acc1339f607dbeafe2febd1be0912034c7af3a1

So, how do I as a lowly end user sort this out? Is the repo wrong, and installing 20210206-next while claiming to install 20210825-1? And does it really matter when even 20210825-1 is pretty old anyway? The version of winetricks Manjaro currently includes very incomplete WINE 7.0 support.

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Hello,

That version is available on testing and unstable branches. When in doubt, use Manjaro - Branch Compare

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This is how the branches work

Wine is not a critical linux application tho … hence nor is winetricks

You have two alternatives:

  1. switch branches
  2. install winetricks from an unstable mirror (for example) with this command:
sudo pacman -U https://manjaro.moson.eu/unstable/multilib/x86_64/winetricks-20220328-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
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Arch repository package was flagged out of date yesterday
Arch Linux - winetricks 20220328-1 (x86_64)

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Thanks for the response,

But what about the fact that 20220328-1 is not installing 20220328-1, but is installing 20210206-next?

I installed the winetricks-20220328-1 package as suggested and it still reports its version as 20210206-next when I run winetricks --version. Is it possible the package maintainer is releasing the same package over and over again but with a different label? This builds directly from git, doesn’t it? How much room is there for human error?

It is possible winetricks is misreporting its version?

I have reported the issue here:

But it seems really unlikely that winetricks has been misreporting its version for over a year, isn’t it? Protontricks and Lutris kick up a stink about the old version. Starting winetricks --gui complains about the ancient version.

Is anyone able to confirm/deny that winetricks --version doesn’t match the version reported by pamac? It would be helpful if I wasn’t the only person claiming there’s an issue.

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If you can’t wait for the latest version you could run a self-update independent of package managers

sudo winetricks --self-update

pamac would still report the older version (20220328-1) installed
but winetricks --version should report the latest version (20220411-next)

You might need to rollback to earlier version when it is available in Manjaro repository

sudo winetricks --update-rollback