Installing new Wine version

If you are using Wine alone to play your games, its a good idea to know how to install the newer versions of Wine.
Not to mention WineHQ requires only specific releases of Wine to submit a test report.

1. Open terminal
2. Type:

Code:

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

Press Enter

This will add the official wine repository to your package manager.

3. Type:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Press Enter

This will synchronize the available packages with your package manager

4. Type:

Code:

sudo apt-get install wine1.5

This will install current wine 1.5

Note: Check WineHQ.org for other current releases like:

• 1.6-r4
• 1.4.1
• 1.5.30

many more...

You can always check using Winecfg:

Code:

winecfg

Then click on About Wine

I didn't know you COULD just use wine! Really all by herself?

Yeah, please don't
PlayOnLinux is sooooooo much easier

I hear that! ":O}