Trying to get 9.21 to be used by yabridge

[Trigonomancer]

Hi, I am trying to use Yabridge to enable windows VST plug ins to work on my system, problem is, Wine versions past 9.21 break their UI and the solution suggested by discussions in the yabridge git was simply to roll back "downgrade" Wine, except I can't find a working method to install this older version from what's provided on this repository nor on the internet.

OS: Nobara Linux 42 (Fedora)
Kernel: Linux 6.14.7-202.nobara.fc42.x86_64
Current Wine version: 10.0

I couldn't decide if I put this discussion on yabridge's git or here, but since this is a matter of replacing a wine version I thought it would be more appropriate here.

TL;DR: wanna downgrade Wine to 9.21 globally on the system because I don't know how yabridge works.

[Kron4ek]

Hi. You can create symlinks to the Wine binaries you want to use and put them into /usr/local/bin, this will likely be sufficient. For example:

# cd /opt
# wget https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/download/9.21/wine-9.21-staging-amd64.tar.xz
# tar xf wine-9.21-staging-amd64.tar.xz
# ln -sf /opt/wine-9.21-staging-amd64/bin/wine /usr/local/bin/wine
# ln -sf /opt/wine-9.21-staging-amd64/bin/wine-preloader /usr/local/bin/wine-preloader
# ln -sf /opt/wine-9.21-staging-amd64/bin/wine64 /usr/local/bin/wine64
# ln -sf /opt/wine-9.21-staging-amd64/bin/wine64-preloader /usr/local/bin/wine64-preloader
# ln -sf /opt/wine-9.21-staging-amd64/bin/wineserver /usr/local/bin/wineserver

After this restart the terminal and check what Wine version is used:

$ wine --version

[Trigonomancer]

thank you for responding, this is the initial solution I thought of doing, no that this isn't useful, just that I was looking for a less destructive method, but this will do, thank you.

[Kron4ek]

But this IS a very non-destructive method. This way you don't replace anything in your system, you merely put symlinks into /usr/local/bin, which you can safely delete later when you no longer need that Wine build. Note that /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin are different things.

[Trigonomancer]

I see, thinking it was destructive might've been a misunderstanding on my part on how Linux works really.