Install Wine 1.9.17 Dev on Ubuntu 16.04. Wine 1.9.17 Dev released with Joystick Support Improvements. Wine can be used to port Windows applications to Linux System. In simple words, Ubuntu users can play Windows games and use Windows applications on Ubuntu Systems using Wine.
The Wine 1.9.17 development release brings a better exception handling on 64-bit and joystick support. It also features font embedding improvements and more metafile support in GDI+. Needless to say, there are total 53 Bugs fixed in Wine 1.9.17.
The Wine development release 1.9.17 is now available with the following changes:
- Better exception handling on 64-bit.
- Various improvements in joystick support.
- Some more stream support in the C++ runtime.
- Font embedding improvements.
- More metafile support in GDI+.
- Various bug fixes.
- Fury 3 does not recognize Gamepad/Joystick
- Worms 2 (GOG version) fails to start, crashes with a Visual C++ runtime error
- Worms 2 in-game audio no longer works
- Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer (AoM: Cards of Destiny) doesn’t stretch fullscreen properly
- Microsoft Chat’s comic mode graphical glitches
- Gun Metal is unresponsive to joystick
- VisualFEA’s Toolbar is broken (does no line wrapping)
- Perfect Cherry Blossom controls go crazy
- Total Commander: Pressing the “Program information” button opens multiple windows instead of just one
- Shadow Vault has display errors
- ADO.NET query on a Jet database fails.
- VirtualDJ Home Free crashes after sitting idle for a few minutes.
- CAPCOM games using gamepad start with axes X/Y pressed up/left
- Multiple DirectX9 games need D3D11CreateDevice implementation with D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_9_x support (Ghost Recon: Future Soldier)
- Bug Fix: Multiple DirectX9 games need D3D11CreateDevice implementation with D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_9_x support (Ghost Recon: Future Soldier)
- Bug Fix: Multiple games (Lucius, X Rebirth) don’t expect blending to be enabled by RS_EDGEANTIALIAS
- Bug Fix: Multiple games crashes with unimplemented function d3dx11_43.dll.D3DX11CreateTextureFromMemory
Install Wine 1.9.17 Dev on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Wine 1.9.17 Dev on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:
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
Once installed, use Wine to port Windows applications to Linux.
If you wish to uninstall and remove Wine from Linux Ubuntu Systems, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:wine/wine-builds
Read More https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.9.17