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Install Wine 4.9 in Ubuntu Linux

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

Wine 4.9 Stable Release – Install the latest release of Wine on Ubuntu Linux.

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 4.9 – the Wine development release 4.9 is now available and it brings the following new changes:

  1. Initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.
  2. Support for building 16-bit modules in PE format.
  3. A lot of code moved to the new KernelBase DLL.
  4. Various game controller fixes.
  5. Use higher performance system clocks if available.
  6. Various bug fixes.

Bugs fixed in 4.9 (total 24):

  1. Futuremark PC Mark 7 (.NET 4.0 app) fails to run with Wine-Mono (mscoree:get_runtime Unrecognized version L”v4.0.20926″)
  2. NET Framework 3.5 SP1 based WPF applications crash on direct access of MIL (Media Integration Layer) to internal bitmap struct/class impl (depends on exact layout)
  3. Rogue Squadron 3D 1.3: Unable to setup controller in-game
  4. Flexera InstallShield 20.x based installers crash in NdrProxyInitialize (Samsung Kies 3, Designspark 6.1, Exelis ENVI 5.x)
  5. CoolQ 5.x reports network error on startup due to msscript:ScriptControl_Eval stub
  6. “MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies” – Character models don’t render
  7. TreePad X Enterprise (single user) 12GB v7.17.0: Garbled Text When Creating or Editing a Node/Tree Name
  8. Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5: Tabs show completely black
  9. TopoEdit crashes with unimplemented function mf.dll.MFCreateAudioRendererActivate
  10. Vietcong: taking handmap causes crash (ProcessVertices)
  11. 64-bit MRAC Anti-Cheat (My.Com Warface) kernel service fails in driver entry point due to missing ‘ntoskrnl.exe.{ExAcquireFastMutex,ExReleaseFastMutex}’
  12. Spellforce 3 has misplaced text in main menu
  13. Grand Prix Legends: Service papycpu2 doesn’t load
  14. Grand Prix Legends: Only the first two axes are recognized
  15. winetricks -q msxml3 hangs
  16. Gamepad input no longer works (regression)
  17. Custom protocol handler CF doesn’t support aggregation
  18. Gamepad input no longer works again (regression)
  19. Oracle Java runtime 8.211 online installer crashes in WoW64
  20. “winetricks -q ie8” hangs
  21. World of Tanks 1.5.0 launcher ‘WotLauncher.exe’ (0.3.x) crashes with Wine-Staging 4.7
  22. Incorrect crash information displayed for unimplemented function stubs when 64-bit Wine builtins are cross-compiled in PE format (Mingw-w64, MS x64 calling convention)
  23. Osmos refuses to start with built-in msvcp90
  24. CM_Set_Class_Registry_Property should use PCVOID for buffer parameter

Install Wine 4.9 Stable

Run the following commands in terminal to install Wine 4.9 Stable:

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ disco main'
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key && sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Note

Please note that you will have to replace the codename for other Ubuntu releases. Such as, replace disco in the line/code with bionic for Ubuntu 18.04, xenial for Ubuntu 16.04 and cosmic for Ubuntu 18.10 Systems.

The source is available from the following locations:

  https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.9.tar.xz
  http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.9.tar.xz

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

  https://www.winehq.org/download