Install Wine 1.8.2 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint

In this Tutorial I will show you how to install the Latest stable version of Wine 1.8.2 On Ubuntu 14.04LTS and newer versions.

WineHQ is an open source software developed for running Windows applications on LINUX,OS X and BSD.

The Latest  stable version available form Wine Team is 1.8.2 and released on April 12th 2016.

New in this version 1.8.2

• Various bug fixes.
• Small translation updates.

For changelog vist this link https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.8.2

 

Installation steps

Method 1 : via PPA

Step 1:Make your repository up to date

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2: Install it

sudo apt-get install wine

Method 2 : Via Tar file

Step 1: Download the package and extract it
cd /opt

wget http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.8.2/wine-1.8.2.tar.bz2

tar xjf wine-1.8.2.tar.bz2

Step 2:Configure it

For 32 bit -- sudo ./configure 

For 64 bit -- sudo ./configure --enable-win64

Step 4:compile wine using make

sudo make && sudo make install

Step 5: Check the version

wine --version

wine64 --version

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

wine application name