How to install and upgrade Wine 1.7.20 for Ubuntu or Linux Mint

How to install and upgrade Wine 1.7.20 for Ubuntu or Linux Mint

The Wine 1.7.20 development edition was released in June 13, 2014. Next we will introduce how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, or Ubuntu 12.04.

Wine is an open-source software designed to enable Microsoft Windows applications to run in Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

The latest Wine 1.7.20 has the following features and new features:

• X11 problem repair
• New C/C ++ Runtime Functions
• Fixed Multiple Memory problems
• Fixed Multiple OLE storage problems
• Other Bug fixes

Install Wine 1.7.20 using PPA

1. Press Ctrl + Alt + T to open the terminal and run the following command to add Wine 1.7.20 PPA.

1	sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

2. Run the following command to update and install wine1.7:

1	sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install wine1.7

Source code compilation and installation of Wine 1.7.20

1. Install the dependency package

• Run the following commands on Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 13.10:

1	sudo apt-get install flex bison qt4-qmake

• Run the following command in Ubuntu 12.04:

1	sudo apt-get install flex bison qt3-dev-tools qt4-qmake

2. Download the source code package

1	wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.20.tar.bz2

3. decompress the source code package

1	tar -xjvf wine-1.7.20.tar.bz2 && cd wine-1.7.*

4. Compile and install

• 32-bit System

12	./configurecd tools && ./wineinstall

• 64-bit System

12	./configure --enable-win64cd tools && ./wineinstall

Ubuntu 13.10 compilation and installation of Wine 1.7

For more information about how to install Ubuntu 13.10 on a hard drive in Windows 7, see

Released in Wine 1.6, Windows Simulator

Linux supports running Direct3D 9 games with better performance than Wine

In Ubuntu 13.04, Wine QQ2012 cannot call the fcitx input method to solve the problem.

For more information about how to install the latest Wine 1.5.10 in Ubuntu 12.04, see