Wine 8.19 Released With Updated Mono, More DirectMusic Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 8.19 Released With Updated Mono, More DirectMusic Code

It's slightly off its usual Friday release target, but Wine 8.19 was released today as the newest bi-weekly unstable release of this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.19-Released

[shmerl]

Why doesn't WineHQ make Mono Debian package along with Wine? It would be nicer to have than downloading it for each prefix.

[timofonic]

What about Wine-Staging 8.19? Please write a news article too...

[pinguinpc]

in my case can confirm rise of nations have music however in extended edition crash when game begins but on rise of nations gold-patriots game runs (some graphic gltches of d8vk)

and virtual desktop with steam client still working too

[oiaohm]

Why doesn't WineHQ make Mono Debian package along with Wine? It would be nicer to have than downloading it for each prefix.

https://wiki.winehq.org/Mono

Other than the fact it turns out that having winemono installed results in some programs failing that otherwise work. There are some quirks here and there that need solving.

Yes there is a global install option designed but its not exactly the best.

[Anux]

Other than the fact it turns out that having winemono installed results in some programs failing that otherwise work. There are some quirks here and there that need solving.

For what do you actually need winemono? I have never installed it (it always pops up after every wine update, very annoying) but everything works.

[oiaohm]

For what do you actually need winemono? I have never installed it (it always pops up after every wine update, very annoying) but everything works.

For a lot of people not installing winemono at all is right thing todo. Wine mono exists so you can run .net applications. Depending on you country it may be illegal to use the Microsoft .net runtime on wine and at times Microsoft .net runtime does to work..

You can set mscoree to disabled and that will result in when you update a wine prefix notification about winemono not turning up.

[Anux]

You can set mscoree to disabled and that will result in when you update a wine prefix notification about winemono not turning up.

thanks

[jojo7887]

Why doesn't WineHQ make Mono Debian package along with Wine? It would be nicer to have than downloading it for each prefix.

The way I have it set up is a folder in "/home/user/.cache/wine" with all versions of mono + gecko installers in it. Every time I create a new prefix they're installed automatically from there, completely offline.

[shmerl]

The way I have it set up is a folder in "/home/user/.cache/wine" with all versions of mono + gecko installers in it. Every time I create a new prefix they're installed automatically from there, completely offline.

I don't want to waste space on it every prefix, that's the point.