Thursday, April 8, 2010

How to install Latest Version of Wine in Ubuntu Linux


The Wine development release 1.1.42 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Support for shared 32/64-bit setups.
- Dwarf debug info support for better backtraces.
- More standard actions supported in MSI.
- Support for TIFF image format in WinCodecs.
- A number of Direct3D improvements.
- Shell fixes for better Internet Explorer support.
- Various bug fixes.

 How to install Wine in Ubuntu

First add the repository

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

Now update the list
$ sudo apt-get update

Install Software
$ apt-get install wine

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