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Wine 5.3 Released – Install Wine 5.3 on Ubuntu Linux

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

Wine 5.3 released. How to install Wine 5.3 on Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 19.10. Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) helps running Windows applications on Linux.

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 5.3

The Wine development release 5.3 is now available. It brings the ollowing new changes:

  1. More work towards Ucrtbase runtime support.
  2. Full support for Unicode normalization.
  3. Improvements in Shell Folders handling.
  4. Various bug fixes.

Wine 5.3 – Bugs fixed in 5.3 (total 29):

  • IKEA Home Planner 2010 2D and 3D graphical views show only garbage
  • Lotus Approach (MDI app): double clicking minimized MDI child windows (icons) results in “About Wine” instead of maximize
  • “Shell folders” settings are reset after each wine update
  • Multiple games need DMO Wrapper Filter, ‘qasf.dll’ (Neocron, Age of empires III Steam, .NET XNA 3.x/4.x games using Media classes) (winetricks qasf is a workaround)
  • Trees not rendered correctly in Far Cry 2 when anti-aliasing enabled
  • apps (e.g. sysinternals’ ADExplorer) that require ActiveDirectory connections/ADsOpenObject fail
  • Cannot scroll documents being compared in winmerge (Followup to bug 20695)
  • Proteus direct 3D render problem
  • Unit Test: ComboBox Dropdown does not work if Style is set and no scrollbar required
  • Multiple games require IMFSourceReader ReadSample Implementation (Danganronpa V3, Resident Evil 2 1-Shot Demo)
  • Logos Bible Software (.Net 4.7.2 app) crashes in win8/10 (because IsNormalizedString is just a stub)
  • msi:action systematically times out on Windows 2003
  • msi:action tests fail when running them twice
  • Wine can’t be started, log notice: wineboot failed to start wineboot c00000e5
  • Regression on Automobilista. A lot of cars and tracks are not shown on Game menu
  • Warhammer Online doesn’t render without d3dx9_34
  • Some CPU features are not reported for Intel CPU (Detroit: Become Human is affected)
  • User shared data area should have NumberOfPhysicalPages field filled in (used by Detroit: Become Human)
  • winecfg doesn’t allow disabling Desktop Integration for Downloads
  • Lotus Organizer 97 crashes when selecting a Backup folder using ‘Browse’ button
  • Arma Cold War Assault: Cursor stuck at low fps since Wine 5.0-rc6
  • Multiple installers crash (Hot Wired, Croc installer) : Setup is unable to initialize the language dialogbox: Error 106
  • Infinite drag & drop loop crashes WinSCP
  • DISPLAYCONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_TECHNOLOGY and other enums are the wrong size
  • AnyDesk crashes directly on startup (low WORD of instance handle must be ignored when looking up window classes)
  • QQMusicAgent crashes when started after installation
  • Gothic II Night of the Raven:unhandled exception in Wine 5.2
  • GdipGetNearestColor crash in Subtitle Edit
  • iphlpapi.NotifyUnicastIpAddressChange() should call the callback initially if requested (required for Far Cry 5 online mode)

How to Install Wine 5.3 in Ubuntu:

Run the following commands in terminal to install Wine 5.3 on Linux Ubuntu Systems:


sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt update
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key; sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ eoan main'
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-devel
sudo apt-get install libgnutls30:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libxml2:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386

In the code line “sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ eoan main'” you will have to replace eoan in the code with bionic for Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19.x and xenial for Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18.x

The last code line is for unmet dependencies issue.