Wine HQ is a Open Source software available for LINUX Operating systems for running Windows applications Wine supports on Linux,s...
Wine HQ is a Open Source software available for LINUX Operating systems for running Windows applications
Wine supports on Linux,solaris,Free BSD for running windows applications.
The Latest Stable version of wine is 1.6.2
changelog in wine 1.6.2
- Color management support updated to liblcms version 2.
- Various bug fixes.
Totally 36 bug fixes were fixed in this version 1.6.2
In this tutorial i will show you how to install the latest stable version of wine 1.62 on Debian / Ubuntu 13.10 / 13.04 / 12.10 / 12.04 & LinuxMint 15 / 14 / 13.
Installation steps
Step 1:Add the official PPA from Winehq
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
Step 2: Update the Repository
sudo apt-get update
Step 3:Install wine 1.6.2
sudo apt-get install wine 1.6 winetricks
After succesfull installation open any .exe application and select open with wine program loader (or) open in terminal by typing wine followed by application name
wine notepad.exe
For Complete removal of wine 1.6.2
Run the below commands in terminal for removing wine completely
- sudo apt-get --purge remove wine
- sudo apt-get autoremove
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