Install Wine on Ubuntu Linux Systems. Wine 3.2 had been released with multisample texture support in Direct3D, support for HID gamepads and event support in MSHTML.
Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. 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 3.2 Features
- Separate implementation of USER controls for ComCtl32 v6.
- Multisample texture support in Direct3D.
- Support for HID gamepads.
- More event support in MSHTML.
- Obsolete DOS code removed.
- Various bug fixes.
Download Wine
The source is available from the following locations:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/3.x/wine-3.2.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/3.x/wine-3.2.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Install Wine
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Wine maintenance release 2.0.4 in Ubuntu Linux:
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine-staging winehq-staging winetricks
Once installed, you may have to install some additional Windows libraries and frameworks to run wine properly on Linux Ubuntu System. To do so, either run the command “winecfg” or “/opt/wine-devel/bin/winecfg” in Terminal and follow on-screen instructions.
If you wish to uninstall and remove Wine from Ubuntu System, run:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge wine wine-*
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
rm -rf ~/.wine/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/wine*
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