Install Wine 1.5.12 in Ubuntu 12.04/11.10/11.04

Wine is a free and open source software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. The name Wine initially was an acronym for WINdows Emulator.Its meaning later shifted to the Wine Is Not an Emulator in order to differentiate the software from other emulators.
Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.

New in Wine 1.5.12

• Individual joysticks can now be disabled
• Improved support for D3DX9 constant tables
• Various XRandR improvements
• Lots of other small bug fixes.

Wine 1.5.12 also brings bug fixes for the following Windows games: Rayman 2, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010/2011 demo, Victoria 2 demo, Dragon Age 2 demo, NightSky HD, Cave Story+, Diablo III, Beyond Divinity, And Yet It Moves, and Patrizier 2 Gold.

To install wine open terminal (Alt+Ctrl+t) and write following commands

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install wine1.5

$ sudo apt-get install winetricks

Check out Wine 1.5.12 Announcement

Enjoy :)

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