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How To Install Wine 1.8.3 In Ubuntu, Via Command Line

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

How to install Wine 1.8.3 in Ubuntu, via command line. How to configure and use Wine on Ubuntu. Wine 1.8.3 can be installed via PPA on Linux Ubuntu and Linux Mint Systems.

Wine 1.8.3 is the Wine maintenance release and the release brings various bug fixes (see below) and a lot of NVidia cards added to the GPU description table. It also bring updates to the National Language Support files.

Bugs fixed in 1.8.3 (total 54):

  • 10063 wineconsole run fail on korean locale.
  • 17257 TeX2Word will not install
  • 20695 Cannot scroll documents being compared in winmerge
  • 23768 winhelp: Some images not shown in certain 16-bit Help files
  • 24421 MJ’s Help Diagnostics crashes on startup (app provided MonitorEnumProc callback relies on ECX = lprcMonitor)
  • 25790 WM_SETTEXT handler for the user32 buttons generates WM_CTLCOLOR* inconsistent with Windows user32
  • 26978 tokenadmin.exe crash : Unimplemented function winscard.dll.SCardListReadersA
  • 27680 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)
  • 28082 OCCT Perestroïka needs hal.dll.READ_PORT_ULONG
  • 28177 Adventure games from Kheops Studio hang after the logo screen (Safecracker, Destination: Treasure Island, Nostradamus: Lost Prophecy, Dracula 3, Return to Mysterious Island 2)
  • 28825 Mystic Diary – Haunted Island: Multiple sprite-related bugs in hidden object scenes
  • 29979 ElsterFormular crashes when trying to print already sent income tax return
  • 31662 Office 2010 font embedding when exporting to PDF
  • 32451 Multiple GOG.com installer bundles show a broken/unresponsive dialog window during installation (installer process running out of wndproc slots)
  • 32979 Metal Gear Solid Crash
  • 34070 Simutronics ‘StormFront.exe’ runs out of wndproc slots (ActiveSkin control)
  • 34851 Multiple applications need kernel32 GetFinalPathNameByHandleA/W (64-bit Autodesk Fusion 360, Microsoft OneDrive)
  • 35054 Dragon Age 2 system diagnostics tool fails to recognize GeForce GT 425M
  • 35092 Multiple 64-bit applications need __CxxFrameHandler implementation (Ableton Live 9.1, Adobe Cloud apps)
  • 35711 Winelib: compile error in wincon.h if NOGDI is defined before #include <windows.h>
  • 36031 GeForce 9700M incorrectly detected as 9400
  • 37087 Gothic 2 english demo fails with ‘Conflict: a hook process was found. Please deactivate all Antivirus and Anti-Trojan programs and debuggers.’
  • 38102 Process Hacker 2.x needs winsta.dll.WinStationEnumerateW
  • 39092 Regression introduced with xaudio2_8
  • 39215 Nvidia GeForce GTX960M detected as GTX470
  • 39543 Multiple games and applications crash on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.FreeUserPhysicalPages (Microsoft Office 2007 diagnosis service, Eden Eternal)
  • 39657 Tencent QQ 7.6 crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.PsRemoveLoadImageNotifyRoutine
  • 39667 dinput: MotoGP 3 demo launcher crashes on leaving key configuration dialog.
  • 39681 Unimplemented function crypt32.dll.CryptMsgVerifyCountersignatureEncoded
  • 39730 FillRect() confuses 16bit brush handles with color constants
  • 39759 Add support for detect Nvidia TITAN Black in wine3d/device list
  • 39786 GoodSync crashes, needs oleaut32.OleLoadPictureFile
  • 39796 SCP Containment Breach page fault
  • 39918 Mail.Ru GameCenter installer does not work
  • 39940 Stars! tooltips have wrong background color
  • 40048 Camtasia Studio 8 : crashes on unimplemented function dwmapi.dll.DwmSetPresentParameters
  • 40081 CLM Explorer needs fontsub.dll.CreateFontPackage
  • 40108 kernel32:process regression
  • 40135 msvcirt.c:1386:5: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
  • 40244 PostThreadMessage with WM_NOTIFY message should succeed
  • 40246 Please document WINEBUILD in the winegcc manpage
  • 40286 Geforce 980 maxwell card is not properly detected
  • 40297 Multiple app crashes in macdrv_EnumDisplayMonitors
  • 40304 EveHQ2 crashes with builtin gdiplus
  • 40348 Nvidia 800 series cards not detected correctly
  • 40389 cmd.exe (native): Unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.GetConsoleAliasExesLengthW
  • 40396 Windows SDK DirectWrite sample crashes on uninitialized parameter
  • 40456 NFS MW + NFS Carbon: Car is flying above/under the track (D3DXVec3Transform needs arguments aliasing)
  • 40466 Midnight Commander needs KERNEL32.dll.GetConsoleFontInfo
  • 40473 wine fails to compile with >=glibc-2.23
  • 40487 3dmark Vantage Benchmark: unimplemented functions hal.dll.READ and WRITE PORT
    40493 Prison Tycoon 4 crashes on start up needing msvcp71.dll.??$?5DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@YAAAV?$basic_istream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@0@AAV10@AAC@Z
  • 40517 Office 2007 shows error message “Unexpected error during export” when trying to export document as PDF file
  • 40525 schannel:main does not recognize package version 0x400000

Install Wine On Ubuntu

Wine 1.8.3 can be installed on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint and other Ubuntu Derivatives. Run the following commands to install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging
sudo apt-get install winehq-staging

Uninstall or Remove Wine

If you wish to uninstall and remove Wine from Ubuntu Systems, run the commands given below:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:wine/wine-builds