27 October 2012

Wine 1.5.16 Released ! How to install it in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10

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how to install wine in linux
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 1.5.16

  • Many improvements to the CMD command-line parser.
  • More stream classes in the C++ runtime.
  • Support for managing services in WMI.
  • Improved CPU detection.
  • Various bug fixes.

To install wine 1.5.16 in Ubuntu open terminal (Alt+Ctrl+t) and write the following commands

Step 1: Add Wine repository

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

Step 2: Update sources.lst

$ sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install Wine 1.5.16

$ sudo apt-get install wine1.5

Check out Wine 1.5.16 Announcement

That's it.
Enjoy :)


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