How to install WINE in Ubuntu, using Terminal. Install WINE In Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Linux Mint. The Wine development release 1.9.4 is now available.
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, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
Install WINE in Ubuntu
The Wine development release 1.9.4 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Support for color glyphs and font fallbacks in DirectWrite.
– Improvements to the WebServices reader.
– Support for more formats in Direct3D 11.
– Simplified syntax and clean up of tests marked todo.
– Various bug fixes.
The source is available from the following locations:
http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.9/wine-1.9.4.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.9/wine-1.9.4.tar.bz2
Bugs fixed in 1.9.4
- Mentioning “wine eject” in SGML
- Problems with MessageBox API
- Documentation should be in XML and not SGML format
- Ultima IX: Mouse pointer missing when reading books, under inventory
- Pendulumania crashes
- Dolphin Wii/GCN emulator crashes on rom load
- Multiple 64-bit applications crash on startup (violation of the Windows 64-bit ABI, stack pointer (RSP) must be 16-byte aligned when making a call to Win64 API)
- BitComet version<1.37 fails to start
- Wine does not quit gracefully
- MinGW installer 0.5-beta-20120426-1 fails to process log files (sharing violation on temp file used for piped output)
- UltraISO ‘ISODrive.sys’ crashes in entry point (SCM doesn’t start SERVICE_FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVER type services with winedevice hosting process)
- bleem! 1.4 (PlayStation emulator) fails on startup, complaining with ‘Not enough memory to load program!’
- Not implemented feature System.Drawing.Pen.ResetTransform()
- No Limits 2: Help files fails to show text. Needs Times New Roman, or dwrite ability to use font replacements
- CompareStringW should abort on the first nonmatching character to avoid invalid memory access.
- Mouse Wheel doesn’t work for Jagged Alliance 2 version 1.13 (it uses MOUSEHOOKSTRUCTEX)
- mshtml:xmlhttprequest fails on IE 7
- Saturn PCB Design Toolkit 6.86 fails to load, reporting missing ‘SHCore.dll’ dependency (import descriptors with empty thunk list must be ignored)
- XIIZeal (steam) immediately exits on start
- Linksys usb wireless adapter installer needs wlanapi.dll.WlanEnumInterfaces
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13 fails to start
- 3DMarkVantage needs SM4 dcl_output_siv support
- SimCity 4 Deluxe fails to start when set to use hardware rendering
- kernel32:process regression
- mshtml:style regression (crash)
- MSI Reading and Writing Behaves differently than Windows
- drcom.exe client needs rasapi32.RasGetLinkStatistics
Install Wine 1.9.4 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install WINE in Ubuntu Systems – Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Linux Mint.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
Once installed, run the following command:
sudo winecfg
After the successful installation of WINE, open it from Ubuntu Dash or Menu. If you older version of WINE already installed on your system, you can simply upgrade the WINE to the latest version. Run the following commands to upgrade the system:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade