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Install Wine 4.0.1 Stable Release on Ubuntu

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

Wine 4.0.1 Stable Release – Install the latest release of Wine on Ubuntu Linux.

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, macOS, & 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.

Wine 4.0.1

The Wine maintenance release 4.0.1 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Various bug fixes
  • Sinhala and Tamil translation updates

The previous release, Wine development release 4.8 brought various updates and improvements:

  • Support building most programs in PE format.
  • Unicode data updated to Unicode 12.0.
  • Support for MSI patch files.
  • Default to non-PIC builds on i386.
  • Joystick support improvements.
  • Asturian locale.
  • Various bug fixes.

Bugs fixed in 4.0.1 (total 44):

  • 8226 DlgDirListComboBox does not fail properly on bad path spec argument
  • 23863 The Bard’s Tale (2005): unplayable due to almost completely black screen
  • 26653 Multiple VB6 applications need oleaut32 VarRound to support VT_DECIMAL
  • 28140 Theatre of War 3: Korea demo 1.2.0 crashes on startup (hook engine can’t cope with GOT/PIC register load code at API entry, needs DECLSPEC_HOTPATCH for kernel32.SizeofResource and kernel32.FindClose)
  • 31954 Second Sight hangs with a black screen after the intro videos
  • 33456 D3DXMatrixTransformation: Broken calculation when scalingrotation and scaling is used
  • 35516 Microworlds EX hangs when clicking toolbar button
  • 37705 Heroes of Might and Magic VI Shades of Darkness Textures Fail to Display in Most Campaign Maps
  • 38138 Avencast: Rise of the Mage: invisible doors
  • 38558 cmd.exe bundled with Windows XP messed up when using FOR /F
  • 39663 GOG Galaxy client 1.x hangs or reports ‘Something went wrong during DeelevateStrategy’ error in Win7 mode (GOG Galaxy service needs wtsapi32.WTSQueryUserToken implementation)
  • 39890 Orcish Inn fails to start with exception System.NotImplementedException
  • 40441 Chicken tournament crashes when loading texture
  • 44300 Windows Media Player 7.1 fails to play media due to unimplemented function wmvcore.dll.WMCheckURLExtension
  • 44469 Multiple apps using Windows 10 v1507+ UCRT crash due to multiple missing api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll._o__xxx stubs/forwards (Win10 DISM pkgmgr.exe, MS DirectX Shader Compiler)
  • 45326 Multiple 64-bit kernel drivers crash on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.__C_specific_handler (NoxPlayer 6.x, MTA:SA 1.5.x)
  • 45473 Rogue Squadron 3D crashes on startup
  • 45631 League of Legends client crashes when joining a lobby with other players
  • 45632 Garena client v2.0.x crashes on startup (‘ntdll.NtQueryVirtualMemory’ needs to validate ‘MemoryInformationLength’ before writing to buffer)
  • 46127 aria2 1.34 fails to connect, reports ‘WinTLS: Channel setup failed. Schannel provider did not fulfill requested flags. Excepted: 33180 Actual: 33052’
  • 46298 Middle-earth: Shadow of War (steam appid 356190) crashes on launch
  • 46300 Yousician: unimplemented function mfplat.dll.MFGetSystemTime
  • 46303 Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos (Czech language) can’t be installed from CD
  • 46318 vbscript doesn’t parse if identifier is also keyword token
  • 46319 32-bit IL-only executable launched as 32-bit subprocess on Wine and 64-bit subprocess on Windows
  • 46387 ReactOS/Windows XP TASKMGR: Column headers don’t scroll when scrolling horizontally (multiple listview or header control)
  • 46442 FormatCurrency(9) returns .9.00 (period in front)
  • 46465 Visual Studio 2015 crashes on unimplemented function msvcp140.dll._Equivalent
  • 46481 strftime has a buffer overflow
  • 46482 Gas Guzzlers Combat Carnage crashes when changing screen resolution
  • 46485 PBM_STEPIT crashes with division by zero when MinVal == MaxVal == 0
  • 46493 Functions ilogb* are not implemented
  • 46494 64bit WinMerge crash after clicking “About WinMerge”
  • 46499 Multiple games crash in GetRawInputData when exiting(House Party, Murderous Pursuits, ICEY)
  • 46520 Kindred Spirits on the Roof crashes
  • 46536 Empire Earth (GOG version) main menu rendering is broken
  • 46569 ToDoList 7.1 : fails to launch after WINE upgrade to 4.0 version
  • 46581 HeidiSQL generates OLE error when executing custom queries against MSSQL server.
  • 46583 LINE latest version doesn’t work
  • 46678 Width of latin characters is wrong with some fonts.
  • 46691 comctl32/tests/propsheet.c shows uninitalized memory use
  • 46708 Photoline crashed right after start, no problem with wine 3.0.4
  • 46729 Wine directx not detecting Intel HD Graphics 620 (Rev 02) chipset
  • 46907 msi crashes in RemoveFiles action for a broken msi

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Install Wine 4.0.1 Stable

Run the following commands in terminal to install Wine 4.0.1 Stable:

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ disco main'
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key && sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Note

Please note that you will have to replace the codename for other Ubuntu releases. Such as, replace disco in the line/code with bionic for Ubuntu 18.04, xenial for Ubuntu 16.04 and cosmic for Ubuntu 18.10 Systems.