How to install Wine 2.0 Stable in Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives. Terminal commands to install Wine 2.0 (Staging) via the official Wine PPA on Linux Ubuntu Systems.
The stable release Wine 2.0 is now available to download and install. This release represents over a year of development effort and around 6,600 individual changes. The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS. It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as support for many new applications and games. This includes in particular the Direct3D command stream, the full HID support, the Android graphics driver, and message-mode pipes.
What’s new in Wine 2.0
User interface
- The clipboard support is reimplemented for better compatibility; copy & paste of HTML text is also improved. Drag & drop works more smoothly.
- In desktop mode, the taskbar displays running applications and allows switching between them.
- Version 4 of the system tray notification protocol is implemented.
- In desktop mode, some less common display resolutions like 640×400 and 1280×960 are supported.
- More user interface elements scale correctly with high-DPI screens.
Graphics
- Window, bitmap and GDI DC render targets are implemented in Direct2D.
- A wide range of optimizations make the DIB engine noticeably faster.
- GDI graphic paths are reimplemented for better compatibility; they are also supported with enhanced metafiles.Gradients are supported in GDI enhanced metafiles.
- Metafiles are better supported in GdiPlus.
- The macOS graphics driver supports a high-resolution (“Retina”) rendering mode. It can be enabled by setting “RetinaMode” to “Y” under HKCU\Software\Wine\Mac Driver.
Others
- The Web Services API is supported. The XML reader and writer are implemented, along with support for serializing many common data types. Basic support for making SOAP calls is also included. This enables Microsoft Office 2013 online activation.
- The WineD3D graphics card database recognizes more graphics cards. When available, the GLX_MESA_query_renderer GLX extension is used to provide more accurate information about the graphics card.
- The (system) memory layout of texture resources more closely matches Windows. This affects applications that write beyond the bounds of a MIP-level, like for example League of Legends.
A number of fixes related to vertex transformation in early DirectDraw versions have been made.
Install Wine 2.0 Stable in Ubuntu
Before you install the latest Wine version, run the following commands to uninstall and remove the pre-installed Wine version:
sudo apt remove wine wine1.8 wine-stable libwine* fonts-wine* && sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt remove wine1.8 wine-staging && sudo apt autoremove
Now run the following commands to 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
The source is available from the following locations:
http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.0/wine-2.0.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/2.0/wine-2.0.tar.bz2
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: http://www.winehq.org/download