How to install Wine 1.8 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 15.04. Download and install Wine 1.8 (Stable) via PPA in Ubuntu Linux. The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.8 is now available. This release represents 17 months of development effort and around 13,000 individual changes.
The main highlights are the implementation of DirectWrite and Direct2D, and the new Pulse Audio driver. It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as support for many new applications and games. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes.
What’s new in Wine 1.8
- Direct2D is supported.
- Direct3D 11 is supported, to about the same level as Direct3D 10.
- Simple applications using Direct3D 10 are supported. There are still many unimplemented features. Direct3D 10 requires support for at least OpenGL 3.2 and GLSL 1.50. Some
- A number of new DXGI 1.1 interfaces are implemented. This benefits Direct3D 10 and 11 applications.
- The wined3d graphics card database recognizes more graphics cards. The graphics card detection code is simplified and improved. More reasonable fallbacks are picked for unrecognized graphics cards.
- 5.1 surround sound is supported in DirectSound. Stereo is the default, but other speaker configurations can be set through the Audio tab in Winecfg.
For complete changelog, visit https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.8
Install Wine 1.8 on Ubuntu
For 32-bit system
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.8 winetricks
For 64-bit system, rum command to enable 32 bit architecture:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
winecfg