The new version of Wine 1.7.18 is now available. Read the following guide on How to install Wine 1.7.18 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. This tutorial also can be applied to Linux Mint 17 and all Ubuntu 14.04 derivatives. What’s new on Wine 1.7.18? Based on a trusted source, Wine 1.7.18 includes improvements on OLE accessible object support, fixes for some memory issues, a bunch of MSHTML functions and also 80 bug-fixes. I think its worth to install this Wine 1.7.18 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr.
To install, we need to setup the wine repository on Ubuntu 14.04. Type this command on Terminal
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
Now update Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
Next install wine using command
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks
Done.
In case you want to remove wine and its repository from Ubuntu, this command should work
sudo apt-get remove wine1.7
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
Thank you for reading this mini how to install wine 1.7.18 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr
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