Install WineHQ version 1.7.26 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Install Wine 1.7.26 in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/14.10/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows. Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.

Changes in this release:

• Still more DirectWrite functions.
• Improvements to the common File Dialog.
• A number of C runtime improvements.
• Implementation of the packet capture library.
• A few more DirectWrite functions.
• Improvements in HTML table support.
• More VBScript math functions.
• Beginning of some DirectWrite classes implementation.
• Initial wrapper dll for the packet capture library.
• Some crypto improvements.
• Better support for files drag & drop.
• Improvements to the HTTP cookie management.
• Initial support for 64-bit Android builds.
• Fixes to crypto certificates management.
• Support for Unicode bracketing pairs.
• Improved Internet cookie support.
• OS X CoreAudio driver uses AUHAL instead of AudioQueue.
• Initial support for geographical information.
• Support for critical sections in the C runtime.
• Unicode data updated to Unicode 7.0.
• Support for interlaced PNG encoding.
• Initial stub for the Packager library.
• Various bug fixes.

Install Winehq 1.7.26 via PPA in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

Install Winehq 1.7.26 from source in Ubuntu 14.04/14.10/Linux Mint 17 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get install flex bison qt4-qmake
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.26.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf wine-1.7.*
cd wine-1.7.*

>> For 32bit: Terminal Commands:
./configure
cd tools; ./wineinstall

>> For 64bit: Terminal Commands:
./configure --enable-win64
cd tools; ./wineinstall

Install Wine 1.7.26 from source in Ubuntu 12.04/Linux Mint 13/Debian open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get install flex bison qt3-dev-tools qt4-qmake
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.26.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf wine-1.7.*
cd wine-1.7.*

>> For 32bit: Terminal Commands:
./configure
cd tools; ./wineinstall

>> For 64bit: Terminal Commands:
./configure --enable-win64
cd tools; ./wineinstall

You can download source of Wine 1.7.26 for other Distributions from Source Forge.
Wine stable versions available: Wine 1.6, Wine 1.5 (PPA, Source) and Wine 1.4
That's it