How to Install Wine 1.7.52 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint and Derivatives. Run Windows games and software on Linux Ubuntu Systems, using Wine.
Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly. Wine integrate Windows applications into other OS desktop, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of any other similar methods.
Wine was released in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux.
Wine 1.7.52 is the latest available version of Wine software. Wine 1.7.52 has been released with 5 new features and 99 bug fixes fixed. Below are the latest features released:
- Unicode data updated to Unicode 8.0.0.
- Some implementation of the Web Services DLL.
- More Direct3D 11 interfaces.
- A few more functions in the C++ runtime.
- Output standard glyph names in the PostScript driver.
- Various bug fixes (total 99 bugs fixed).
The source is available from the following locations:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.52.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.7/wine-1.7.52.tar.bz2
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from http://www.winehq.org/download You can also get the current source directly from the git repository at http://www.winehq.org/git .
How to Install Wine 1.7.52 on Ubuntu
The latest version (Wine 1.7.52) can be installed on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint and Derivatives. Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Wine on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Derivatives, via the official PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks
If you want to uninstall and remove Wine from Ubuntu Systems, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove wine1.7 winetricks