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How to use PlayOnLinux with Wine 1.7?

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I have installed PlayOnLinux which obviously also installs Wine, however it installs Wine 1.6, and I want Wine 1.7, so if I were to add the Wine PPA and install Wine 1.7 over 1.6 could this cause any problems with PoL? I mean, is there a better way of getting PoL and Wine 1.7? Or is it likely that it won't work properly with Wine 1.7?

OS Information:

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description:    Ubuntu 15.04

Release:    15.04

Codename:   vivid

Flavour: GNOME

GNOME Version: 3.16

Package Information:

playonlinux:

  Installed: 4.2.5-1

  Candidate: 4.2.5-1

  Version table:

 *** 4.2.5-1 0

        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/multiverse amd64 Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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answered 2 Years ago ellter · Accepted Answer

You can update Wine to version 1.7 by adding the Wine Team PPA, as stated by Terrance in his answer, but PlayOnLinux is not restricted to system's Wine.

From the PlayOnLinux wiki:

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac have the unique ability to use a different version of Wine for every different Virtual Drive that you create. The benefit is that, no matter what, you can have a self-contained environment for your software, with the specific version of Wine (even with patches) for that software. No more conflicts between Wine versions, easier testing of multiple versions of Wine... it really does give a radical amount of flexibility.

Got to Tools -> Manage Wine Versions, select the desired version and press the > button to install it:

Then you can choose a specific Wine version for each Virtual Drive in the configuration window: