Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) for Linux Ubuntu. How to install Wine 1.8 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu Derivative Systems. Install Wine and run Microsoft Windows Games and Softwares on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Wine is compatibility layer software app that enables the Linux Unix Systems to run Windows softwares and games on their systems. It uses the Winelib software library to run Windows apps on Linux System.
Wine 1.8 is the latest version of teh Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) app. Wine 1.8 has has received more that 13,000 changes. Wine 1.8 can be installed via PPA on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Run the following commands to install Wine 1.8 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint and Derivatives Systems.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.8 winetricks
Once installed, Wine can opened from Ubuntu Dash.
If you want to uninstall Wine from Linux Ubuntu Systems, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.8 winetricks