Install Wine 2.0.2 Stable on Ubuntu 17.04 / LinuxMint

In this Tutorial, I will show you how to install the Latest stable version of Wine 2.0.2 On Ubuntu 17.04 / 16.04 LTS and LinuxMint. ...

In this Tutorial, I will show you how to install the Latest stable version of Wine 2.0.2 On Ubuntu 17.04 / 16.04 LTS and LinuxMint.

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

The Latest  stable version available from Wine Team is 2.0.2 and released on July 20th 2017

What's new in this version?

• Various bug fixes.

For changelog visit their announcement page

Installation steps

From the version 2.0.1 onwards launch pad is no longer used by wine for builds and you can install it using the below method

Install it from Repos

Step 1: Download the key and add to your pc

wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key

sudo apt-key add Release.key

sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'

Step 2: Update your repos

sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install wine 2.0.2

sudo apt-get install winehq-stable