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The latest installation instructions for Wine
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Wine 1.7.0 has been recently released, bringing some new features to the previous version, Wine 1.6.
Improvements and fixes, from the official announcement:
- Support for vertical text in the Postscript driver.
- Version 2 of liblcms used now instead of version 1.
- Unicode data updated to Unicode 6.2.0.
- Hyperlink controls supported in installers.
- Improved support for XML attributes.
- Various bug fixes.
In this article I will show you how to install Wine 1.7.0 on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Linux Mint 16 Petra, Linux Mint 15 Olivia, Linux Mint 14 Nadia and Linux Mint 13 Maya.
Because it is not available via PPA yet, we have to download the app from sourceforge.net, extract the archive and install Wine.
Instructions for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Linux Mint 16 Petra and Linux Mint 15 Olivia:
$ sudo apt-get install flex bison qt4-qmake
$ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.0.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf wine-1.7.0.tar.bz2
$ cd wine-1.7.0
$ ./configure
$ /tools/wineinstall
To install Wine. 1.7.0 on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 14 Nadia and Linux Mint 13 Maya, you need to also install the qt3-dev-tools package, before compiling Wine from source, like we did for Ubuntu 13.10/13.04 and Linux Mint 16/15.
for install
sudo apt-get install flex bison qt4-qmake
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.0.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf wine-1.7.0.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.7.0
sudo aptitude install libx11-dev
./configure
$ /tools/wineinstall
did it, ok but seems that steam (at least) need some windows fonts. copying from windows to the pseudo windows/fonts directory doesn’t work… what else?
thanks
julio
Download winetricks, save it somewhere on your PC, make it executable ($ chmod a+x /path/to/winetricks ) and then just do
/path/to/winetricks corefonts
If you have some corruption with font rendering perhaps you should
/path/to/winetricks gdiplus
Is it better to run in chroot mode or just install into /usr/local ? What if I first installed official packages 1.4 from repo which installs into /usr/bin and creates /home/username/.wine directory. should I remove them first and then install from wine1.6 sources ?
yes, you should remove them.