Wine 2.15 Released – Install The Latest Wine Version On Ubuntu

Wine 2.15 development release for Linux Ubuntu. Install Wine 2.15 on Ubuntu Systems. Wine 2.15 brings support for AES encryption, an improved Bezier support in Direct2D, chunked transfer improvements in WinInet and various bug fixes.

Wine 2.15

A total 9 bugs have been fixed in the Wine 2.15 release:

  • Illustrator CS6: ruler area gets corrupted when moving mouse
  • emClient (.NET app) exits silently because GdipGetLineTransform is just a stub
  • Bricscad: dots and small objects left “traces” while moving
  • Joystick enabled applications crash when a device that advertises more than 8 axes is attached
  • Microsoft Outlook 2010 cannot connect to MS Exchange Server
  • XM6 TypeG crashes on startup.
  • Peavey Revalver IV (Amp modeling software) crashes due to missing Win7+ Touch Input API (stubs)
  • FUJITSU Software ATLAS: unimplemented function msvcr80.dll._ismbcl0 called in 32-bit code
  • Magic Online (Magic The Gathering: Online) Crashes due to LOCALE_SNAN returning empty string

Download Wine

The source is available from the following locations:

http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.x/wine-2.15.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/2.x/wine-2.15.tar.xz

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

http://www.winehq.org/download

Install Wine on Ubuntu

Run the following commands in Terminal to install Wine on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives.

Method 1


sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging

Method 1


sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'
wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key && sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt update
sudo apt install winehq-stable

Once installed, restart the system and open Wine from Ubuntu Dash.

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