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Install Wine 4.15 in Ubuntu – Download Wine for Ubuntu

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

Learn how to install wine 4 on Ubuntu Linux; Download wine for Ubuntu and learn how to use wine in Ubuntu Linux. Wine “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 4.15 Features

  1. Initial implementation of the HTTP service.
  2. Stack unwinding support on ARM64.
  3. Better multi-monitor support on macOS.
  4. RichEdit control optimizations.
  5. Various bug fixes.

Bugs fixed in 4.15 (total 28):

  • Dragon Age: Origins – massive flickering when StrictDrawOrdering is disabled
  • 33834 user32: multiline edit control renders tabs not correctly using usp10
  • 34830 rpcrt4:cstub fails and crashes on Windows 8
  • 37781 Multiple Microsoft Redistributable/Component installers running in Windows 7 mode need dummy Windows Update Service (MS .NET Framework 4.5, MS VC++ 2015 Redist)
  • 38245 Construct 2 can’t create a localhost server (needs implementation of version 1 httpapi request queues)
  • 40868 World of Warcraft 7 (Legion expansion beta realm version) client causes a lot of seh:RtlCaptureStackBackTrace stub noise in console
  • 41752 Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012 Corrupted Models & Textures in Game
  • 42681 Regression: Graphics/Texture no longer render correctly in Reflex Arena
  • 43387 valgrind shows several definite leaks in dlls/windowscodecs/tests/metadata.c
  • 44958 Epic Games crash reporter needs ‘dbgeng.DebugCreate’ to support IDebugClient5 interface
  • 45420 Titanfall 2 Multiplayer mode stuck on Attempting Connection
  • 45843 Battleye’s BEDaisy.sys expects memory allocated by ExAllocatePoolWithTag to be executable
  • 46315 Vypress Chat 2.1.9 MSI installer crashes without native jscript
  • 47035 widl generates typelib file with enums multiply defined
  • 47041 wire_marshal attribute ignored and the underlying type is used instead
  • 47049 boolean type defined as ‘unsigned char’ rather than ‘char’
  • 47050 typedef’d anonymous structs typedef’d names are not used in interface methods
  • 47101 Multiple 64-bit game and application crash reporting tools need x86_64 ‘ntdll.RtlCaptureStackBackTrace’ implementation
  • 47149 widl generates invalid C headers when user-defined structs also have const typedef’d names
  • 47427 Glide wrapper – Configuration buttons misbehaving
  • 47436 `winetricks -q dotnet30sp1` fails
  • 47442 Quickbooks 2018 installer fails during Amyuni ABS PDF driver installation, reporting ‘File not found.’ (needs stub ‘regini.exe’)
  • 47494 SuperTux: Fullscreen mode not working on MacOSX (Invalid monitor handle)
  • 47523 EverQuest crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.EnumSystemFirmwareTables since build Jul 12 2019
  • 47563 Sforzando Sample Player works but GUI is blank (unusable)
  • 47633 Guild Wars quits silently after the splash screen
  • 47636 Multiple games text is upside down (affects Wizard101, Touhou, Unreal Tournament)
  • 47661 SwanSoft CNC: Crashes when clicking “tools management” button

Install Wine 4.15

On Ubuntu 19.04 and Derivatives Systems:


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

On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Derivatives Systems:


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

On Ubuntu 18.10 LTS and Derivatives Systems:


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

Replace the command line “sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main’” trusty for Ubuntu 14.04, xenial for Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18.x and cosmic for Ubuntu 18.10 Systems.

The source is available from the following locations:

  https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.15.tar.xz
  http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.15.tar.xz

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

  https://www.winehq.org/download