The Wine development release 4.16 is now available. Here is how to install Wine 4.16 in Ubuntu Linux Systems. Wine 4.16 brings more reliable mouse grabbing in games with better cross-compilation support in WineGCC and an improved compatibility with Windows debuggers.
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 4.16
The Wine development release 4.16 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details):
- More reliable mouse grabbing in games.
- Better cross-compilation support in WineGCC.
- Improved compatibility with Windows debuggers.
- Various bug fixes.
Install Wine 4.16
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 add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
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 add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
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 add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
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.