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How can I update Wine, without uninstalling it?

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As per title, how can I update Wine without uninstalling it?

Seems a noob question, but it's first time that I find my self to upgrade Wine.

Wine, today it is at the stable version 7.0, and in the past I have installed version 6.0.1 on my computer.
If I write the command apt search winehq-stable, this result comes out:

winehq-stable / now 6.0.1 ~ hirsute-1 amd64 [installed]

(but my version of ubuntu is the following: Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri)

And the information I found on internet, related to updating Wine, is always to uninstall Wine to install a new version; Is it possible that you cannot update without uninstalling it?

Besides that seems strange to me, I don't want to lose all the well-set Windows program installations. It would mean starting everything from scratch.
Then I don't understand why from the Wine repository, a new Wine update does not come out and it stays at an old Wine version.

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answered 2 Years ago tersle · Accepted Answer

Ok, I found a solution, to update Wine, and was simply to add the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ impish main'

So, Wine could not find the updates in the Repository and then update it with the latest libraries, because I installed Wine when it was Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo ..... after months I installed the latest version of Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri. The Wine repository that I added in the past, kept looking for the old Ubuntu version of Wine. So to get around the situation, I simply added the repository corresponding to the version of Ubuntu currently installed in my PC, and the Terminal found the new version of Wine with all related libraries to be updated/installed. Now Wine, it is updated to the latest Stable 7.0 version