Affinity installer crashes on Ubuntu 24.04 because python install script insists on installing system wine

[beew]

I tried to use the python install script to install affinity on Ubuntu 24.04 but the affinity installer (.exe) crashes every time. I notice this is due to the python script installs system version of wine (wine 9) and uses that to run the installer. While you can choose the version of wine to run affinity once it is installed, the install script uses system wine to run the affinity installer.

I tried to work around it by installing winehq-staging (wine 11.15) but the python script would always replace it with wine 9. The scripts' version checking determines that I am on Ubuntu24.04 so it would install wine from repo even though winehq-staging is already installed.

I know that winehq-staging (wine 11.15) works because I installed affinity successfully on mint 22.3 (which is based on Ubuntu 24.04) with that version and wine9 wasn't forced on me. It is the only difference because they are on two different hard drives booting off the same machine, with the same nvidia driver version and packages installed, both are on x11.

I am wondering if there is a way to stop the python script from installing the default wine package on Ubuntu 24.04 (or disable ubuntu version check as the setup for jammy would work because it would install winehq instead of using default wine)

I also suggest to use wine-hq at all time because it is more likely to work than version packaged by distro.

[beew]

I figured it out.

Download the install script without running

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryzendew/AffinityOnLinux/refs/heads/main/AffinityScripts/AffinityLinuxInstaller.py -o install.py 

then change #9902 to (change 24.04 to something higher)

use_official_wine = ubuntu_version_num >= 26.10 and not is_mint

This way the install script version check would install winehq-staging instead of wine9 in Ubuntu 24.04's official repos.

Now run the install script

python3 install.py

And it works! Finally installed affinity on Ubuntu 24.04 successfully. My theory is correct. wine 9 from Ubuntu 24.04's repo causes the affinity installer (.exe) to crash, winehq-staging (wine 11.15) works!