Wine (Wine is not an emulator) 1.7.47 has been released. Here’s how to install Wine 1.7.46 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives. Wine 1.7.47 comes with various improvements and support for many applications and games.
Wine 1.7.47 for Ubuntu brings the following changes:
- Text drawing in Direct2D.
- Support for the new thread pool API.
- Toolbar state saving.
- Beginnings of an implementation for proper HID support.
- Support for file objects in device drivers.
- Various bug fixes.
It also brings enhanced support for WeatherScope, NOLF2, Divinity 2, Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online, 3DMark06, Battlefield 2, Outlook Express, Battlefield 1942, Civilization 4, Word 2010 Pro Plus, SecureCRT, Skyrim, Quake Live, NUMA Explorer, Microsoft Lync Basic 2013, and FotoSketcher has been implemented.
Install Wine 1.7.47 in Ubuntu
Run the following commands to install Wine on Ubuntu:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks
If you wish to remove and uninstall the Wine, run the below given command:
$ sudo apt-get remove wine1.7 winetricks