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
 
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