Hello
I am trying to setup an audio workstation with Cockos Reaper. I use yabridge to convert my Windows VST to Linux VST plugins. (https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge).
This awesome utility is using wine-staging.
What is the best way to install wine-staging on Solus?

wine-staging is not part of the repo itself, unfortunately (due to it using the same files as wine proper it was decided to keep it out, back in the day; I'd have to search the old dev tracker task to see what the exact arguments were back then).
Now, I'm sure there are some Wine managers out there that can download different runtimes (e.g. staging), but off the top of my head I can only think of lutris. While it is mostly used for games, I guess it would be possible to make it work for your use case too. (they simply call their Wine runtimes "Lutris-x.x", but they include the staging patches as far as I know).
But I'd wait for someone else to chime in who has experiences with wine-staging on Solus.

Last resort would be of course to simply compile it yourself.

Thank you for your answer!
Yabridge uses wine commands in the background to load the plugins so lutris can not be an option.
I gave regular wine and wine32 a try with no luck.
I suspect that if I try to compile wine-staging myself I will screw up the system. There are too many 32bit dependencies in there ... too scary for me ...

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    apapamarkou Does the software look for system wine or can you point it to an arbitrary path? If latter, one could point it to Lutris-downloaded Wine build residing at .local/share/lutris

      SOLVED !!!!!!
      I installed both 64 and 32bit versions of wine.
      I confirm that yabridge works with the repository current version of wine. In fact, VST load time in SolusOS is 10 times faster than any other distro I worked on.
      Thank you all for your time.
      I am glad for trying Solus.

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        apapamarkou How do you use your experience using Wine 64 & 32 on Solus OS.Does the software install you need require a lot of depencies before you can use it?Why do I ask this, because I myself always fail to install wine on the Solus OS via Terminal. Even via SC (Software Center) so I wish you can share it here. Thanks

            pumaly Maybe you had issues because the binary installed with the wine package is wine64 (as we're a 64-bit operating system); if you want the wine binary, you also have to install wine-32bit. After that it should work fine. If you have any error output feel free to open a thread about it.