The Wine maintenance release 2.0.4 is now available. Here’s how to install Wine on Ubuntu; configure and how to use Wine on Ubuntu Linux Systems. Wine 2.0.4 brings various bug fixes, an update to the National Language Support files and few documentation updates.
Bug Fixes Wine maintenance release 2.0.4
- eISLP -help doesn’t display, ‘text controller’ error message
- EM_PASTESPECIAL unimplemented in richedit
- comctl32/monthcal tests show some invalid reads under valgrind
- Odd coordinate in hit test causes uninitialized value references in MONTHCAL_CalculateDayOfWeek()?
- If D3D_DISABLE_9EX is defined, d3d9.h can’t be compiled
- foobar2000 ‘Scheduler’ plugin crashes on unimplemented function shell32.dll.ShellExec_RunDLLW
- Winrar installer fails to start
- PhotoFiltre 6 and 7 don’t erase the mouse selection when dragging it
- Cxbx (Xbox emulator) doesn`t start (wine: Invalid address)
- League of Legends needs function msvcp140.dll.?__ExceptionPtrAssign@@YAXPAXPBX@Z
- Multiple apps need api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll.__stdio_common_vfprintf_s (Civilization VI, Mafia 3,
- SketchBook)
- Mixcraft 8 crashes when adding a video track (‘IAMTimelineGroup’, ‘{9eed4f00-b8a6-11d2-8023-00c0df10d434}’
- not implemented, ‘qedit.dll’)
- MyLifeOrganized crashes when mousing over tabs
- strange behavior- Eudora scrambles email addresses
- Beamng.drive requires msvcr120.dll.vsscanf
- Magic Online (Magic The Gathering: Online) Crashes due to race condition in secur32
- XM6 TypeG crashes on startup.
- FUJITSU Software ATLAS: unimplemented function msvcr80.dll._ismbcl0 called in 32-bit code
- Magic Online (Magic The Gathering: Online) Crashes due to LOCALE_SNAN returning empty string
- WIC can’t encode to GUID_WICPixelFormat32bppPBGRA PNG
- clipboard PIXMAP regression after upgrading from 1.8.x to 2.x
- Text in Deletion Confirmation MsgBox has wrong background colour
- Terris Universal Remote UFB 234 – update database does not work
- [GdiPlus] HatchStyle is incorrectly named in Wine. Should be GpHatchStyle
- ImageMagick crashes with msvcr120.dll._vfprintf_l
- Fidibo installer crashes very early in win7 mode
- Chromium-based browser engine (CEFv3) used by several games randomly crashes on shutdown (World of Warships 0.6.x)
- In ole32/storage32.c , miss check for the result of HeapAlloc
- “Cannot allocate DOS memory” error with 16-bit Windows applications
- wine-2.0.3/programs/wineboot/wineboot.c:684]: (style) Suspicious condition
- winecfg: Use more secure HTTPS URL in about
Download Wine
The source is available from the following locations:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.0/wine-2.0.4.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/2.0/wine-2.0.4.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Install Wine
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Wine maintenance release 2.0.4 in Ubuntu Linux:
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine-staging winehq-staging winetricks
Once installed, you may have to install some additional Windows libraries and frameworks to run wine properly on Linux Ubuntu System. To do so, either run the command “winecfg” or “/opt/wine-devel/bin/winecfg” in Terminal and follow on-screen instructions.
If you wish to uninstall and remove Wine from Ubuntu System, run:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge wine wine-*
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
rm -rf ~/.wine/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/wine*