Install Wine 1.7.41 On Ubuntu 14.10 / LinuxMint

In this Tutorial I will show you how to install the Latest Development Version of Wine 1.7.41 On Ubuntu 14.04LTS / 14.10 /12.04 and L...

In this Tutorial I will show you how to install the Latest Development Version of Wine 1.7.41 On Ubuntu 14.04LTS / 14.10 /12.04 and LinuxMint 17.

WineHQ is an open source software developed for running Windows applications on LINUX,OS X 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 penalties and clearly integrate with windows applications into your desktop.
 
The Latest Version available form Wine Team is 1.7.41 and released on April 17th 2015.
 
For Installing the Latest stable Version 1.6.2 ,click HERE
 
New in this version 1.7.41

• More Known Folders supported in the shell.
• Some more support for kernel job objects.
• More MSI patches improvements.
• Some theming fixes.
• Various bug fixes

Installation steps
 
Step 1:Add the official PPA from Wine Team

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

Step 2: Update the Repository

sudo apt-get update

Step 3:Install wine 1.7.41

sudo apt-get install wine 1.7 winetricks

After successful installation open any windows application using wine or install any application

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