WineHQ is an open source software developed for running Windows applications on LINUX,OSX and BSD. The Main role of Wine in Linux o...
WineHQ is an open source software developed for running Windows applications on LINUX,OSX and BSD.
The Main role of Wine in Linux or Other operating systems is to translate windows API calls to POSIX calls on the fly,by this method it will eliminate the Memory penalities and clearly integrate with windows applications into your desktop
The Latest Version available form Wine Team is 1.7.14 and this is a Development Version and it is released on March 07th 2014
For Installing the Latest stable Version 1.6.2 ,click HERE
What's New in this version 1.7.14
- Improvements in Encoding support
- Fixes for Monochrome Printer
- More Visualbasic interfaces in MSXML
- More task scheduler support
- Support for deflate content encoding in wininet
- and lastly various BUG fixes
Installation steps
Step 1:Add the official PPA from Wine Team
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppaStep 2: Update the Repository
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install wine 1.7 winetricks
wine notepad.exe
For Complete removal of wine 1.7.14
Run the below commands for removing wine completely
- sudo apt-get --purge remove wine
- sudo apt-get autoremove
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