WineHQ 1.7.8 has been released, Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

Install Wine 1.7.8 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/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:

• Updated version of the Mono package.
• Improvements in the BITS service implementation.
• Better data tables for Japanese vertical fonts support.
• Support for configuring remote shares using Samba's NetAPI library.
• Improved embedding support through XEMBED.
• Support for arrays in VBScript.
• Various bug fixes.

Install Winehq 1.7.8 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13 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 1.7.8 from source in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Linux Mint 16 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-1.7.8.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 1.7.8 from source in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10/Linux Mint 14/13/12/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-1.7.8.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 1.7.8 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