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I have a working wine installation on old harddrive. There
is root directory (/) on one partition and /home/username
directory on another partition.

I installed wine on new harddrive and when I run it it gives
me some OLE error.

How can I run the old version of wine, so that I mount the
old partitions and run the version that is on the old harddrive?

Likely this problem relates to your WINE requiring libraries which also live under your /home/username file hierarchy.

If I required WINE for a project, I'd likely us Ubuntu + find a PPA which packaged the most current version of WINE. This way I could just install WINE anywhere + have it work.

That said, you can likely fix up your Library path as follows.

# Find all libraries in your WINE executable
ldd path-to-your-handrolled-username-installed-WINE

# record all directories reported
# note: also run ldd on any non-system installed libraries
# add list of libraries to your ~/.bashrc or equivalent,
# listing every non standard path
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path[:path...]

Setting this in ~/.bashrc will work + may crash other programs.

Better to create a script... maybe... wine_start, which export LD_LIBRARY_PATH + then executes WINE. This way you can collect all these library path settings into a script, rather than polluting your default runtime environment.