Wine 2.17 Released, How to Install it on Ubuntu

Wine is a free and open-source software application that allows Linux users to run Windows programs.

Wine 2.17 development version is now available, with new features and improvements.


Wine 2.17 highlights:

• Better support for grayscale mode in DirectWrite.
• Per-application StartupWMClass in desktop files.
• Virtual memory compatibility improvements.
• Palette handling improvements in WindowsCodecs.
• Reply messages improvements in WebServices.
• Various bug fixes.

To install the latest development version of Wine on Ubuntu open the Terminal and run the following commands:

First if your system is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

 Then add the repository:

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

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key && sudo apt-key add Release.key

Update and install

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

For more details about Wine 2.17 click here.

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