Install Wine 1.8.6 Stable on Ubuntu 16.04 / LinuxMint Via PPA

In this Tutorial I will show you how to install the Latest stable version of Wine 1.8.6 On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and older 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 1.8.6 and released on DECEMBER 19th 2016

New in this version 1.8.6

• Fix a regression introduced in 1.8.5
• Various bug fixes.
• A few more cards added to the GPU description table.

For changelog vist this link 

Installation steps

Method 1 : via PPA

Step 1:Make your repository up to date

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

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

Step 2: Install it

sudo apt-get install wine winetricks

Method 2 : Via Tar file

Step 1: Download the package to the opt directory  and extract it

wget http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.8.6/wine-1.8.6.tar.bz2

tar xvf wine-1.8.6.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