Attention Kubuntu/ubuntu devs Please update PlayOnLinux in the repos

[steve7233]

You have version 4.2.2, but version 4.2.12 is the latest. I tried to send a bug report for a script failure but I have to update first.

[vinnywright]

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

click on "Ubuntu"

their is a .deb ,,,

or add the repo.

VINNY

[whatthefunk]

On 16.04, the version in the repos is 4.2.10. What version of Kubuntu do you have? Have you added any ppas? If you want a specific version, check the download page: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html If its not there, do a google and I bet you can find a ppa for what you want.

Also, posting this here will result in nothing. Nobody who has the power to actually upgrade this will do so based on a forum post.

[steve7233]

I just added the POL PPA, but it only has version 4.2.11. I guess even PLO needs update their Ubuntu PPA. I am using Kubuntu 14.04 as stated in several of my very recent posts.

[whatthefunk]

I dont read all posts on here Why not just use the deb package on the download page?

[vinnywright]

in my kubuntu-14.04 install ,,,,,,,I have wine, and playonlinux-4.2.2 ,,,,,,the playonlinux-4.2.12.deb seems to want to install ,,,with a rite click>open with>QApt package installer.



yes ,,,,it installed



VINNY

[steve7233]

@Vinny, What is the wallpaper and them you are using foe your desktop?

[vinnywright]

the wallpaper is "kdoax_by_djstarbuck-d86mvhf.jpg" with a "folder view widget" ,,and of course "conky" running some sysinfo and process monitoring .

VINNY

[oshunluvr]

Interesting. I got PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 here on KDEneon.

[GreyGeek]

Me too.

[acheron]

Interesting. I got PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 here on KDEneon.

Me too.

That would be right.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/playonlinux

[vinnywright]

geez you all don't read much ,,,,,the OP is on Kubuntu-14.04 , and @their the playonlinux is at 4.2.2 ,,,the test I did was on Kubuntu-14.04 ,,with playonlinux-4.2.2 installed ,,,,then DL'd the newest .deb from the https://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

and installed it ,,,it is ver 4.2.12 ,,,just to show the OP that he/she could have the ver requested .

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Vinny's taking us to the woodshed again! ***ouch!***ouch!****ouch!*******

[Simon]

I don't use PlayOnLinux technically Here is what I do in a nutshell... or a bash. lol

• I navigate to the the POL WINE repository in my web browser no PPA needed. https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/
• See where it says "binaries" then chose either 32 or 64 bit according to your Linux OS. Anything ending with a .pol is actually a .tar.bz2 file.
• Download the version you desire. I am currently using 2.0 and testing 2.15
• Rename the file extension with .tar.bz2 and extract. I only extract the 2.15 folder because that is what I need.
• I move it to my $HOME and rename the folder .wine-2.15 this will make it a hidden folder inside my home folder.
• I then have a bash script I titled "wine" no extension in /usr/local/bin

#!/bin/bash
export WINESERVER="$HOME/.wine-2.15/bin/wineserver"
export WINELOADER="$HOME/.wine-2.15/bin/wine"
export WINEDEBUG="-all"
export WINEDLLPATH="$HOME/.wine-2.15/lib/wine"
cd $(dirname "$1")
$WINELOADER "$@"

• Finally I set all windows executable programs to automatically open with wine.
• I can execute in konsole terminal with wine <program name> as well.

I only wish I didn't have so many games that require Windows, but I am slowly getting there. Still somewhat addicted to some silly online MMOs.