How to install Wine 1.8.5 (stable) on Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04, via PPA. Ubuntu users can install Wine via J Fernyhough’s PPA for the latest Wine 1.8 packages. Wine 1.8.5 is the latest release with Nvidia GT 740M fix and many more features.
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, Mac OSX, & 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.
Install Wine Stable 1.8.5 in Ubuntu
Before you begin to install Wine 1.8.5, please run the following command to uninstall and remove old Wine packages if installed:
sud apt-get update
sudo apt remove wine* && sudo apt autoremove
Once the older version of Wine is removed, add the new Wine PPA via these commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/wine
sudo apt update
sudo apt install wine-stable
There is also another method to install WineHQ on Ubuntu Systems. This method is described by the official Wine team. If your system is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture (if you haven’t already):
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
Now run the following commands to add the repository and install Wine:
sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging
sudo apt-get install winehq-staging
That’s it. Wine is installed on Ubuntu System. Once installed, open Wine from Ubuntu Dash and use it.