How to install Wine Staging 1.9.7 (Wine-Fork) on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.10 Systems. Wine Staging is the testing area of winehq.org. It contains bug fixes and features, which have not been integrated into the development branch yet. The idea of Wine Staging is to provide experimental features faster to end users and to give developers the possibility to discuss and improve their patches before they are integrated into the main branch.
WINE Staging 1.9.7 supports Nvidia graphics cards, CUDA, PhysX and NVENC plus CSMT and various other features to improve graphics performance.
Other changes released with WINE Staging 1.9.7 are:
- Enable the correct dialog owner in DIALOG_DoDialogBox
- Implement support for converting 16 bit depth to 24 bit in msvidc32
- Allow 320×240 as supported resolution in desktop mode
- Fix implementation of ICGetDisplayFormat
- Handle stack guard pages on x86_64
- Improve compatibility of IMILBitmapSource interface
- Fix IStream::Read() return value for partial reads
- Implement image hash verification in WinVerifyTrust
- Implement oleaut32.OleLoadPictureFile (GoodSync)
- Fix return value of RegNotifyChangeKeyValue for pending events
- Add support for paste in item context menu
- Fix implementation of cut file operation
- Recognize cut/copy/paste verb strings in context menus
- Add ‘New’ context menu handler registry entry for directories
- Add implementation for fsutil.exe hardlink command
- Add stub for ntoskrnl.IoGetDeviceAttachmentBaseRef
- Return stub interface from mf.MFCreateMediaSession
Install Wine Staging 1.9.7 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands to install up to date Wine Staging PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging
To install the 64 bit version of wine-staging, run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install wine-staging-amd64
Please note that the Wine staging is installed in /opt/wine-staging/bin and hence the Wine Staging can be used along-with the regular wine application. The wine is installed in /usr/bin.
For Wine Staging to behave as it was in the system’s default PATH, run to install wine-staging-compact:
$ sudo apt-get install wine-staging-compat