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Install Wine 1.3.32 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot or any Ubuntu Version/Linux Mint

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.


What's new in this release (see below for details):
  - BiDi text support in the multi-line edit control.
  - Support for pattern brushes in the DIB engine.
  - A number of MSXML fixes.
  - Improvements to the PostScript driver.
  - Various bug fixes.

To install Wine on Ubuntu open Terminal (Press Alt+F2 and type: gnome-terminal -or-  Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:





If you're using any other distro you can download from here.
If wine is already installed just add ppa Wine will automatically update.
Wine is a software which allows to run Windows Software on different operating systems like (Linux, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X).
With Wine Software you can install and run applications of Windows just like you can run on Windows. But not every program works, however there are already several million people using Wine to run Windows software on  other OS's. Wine is still under active development and releasing Wine versions time to time.

Now to install the Wine Software open terminal (Alt+F2 then type: gnome-terminal) and copy the following commands in the terminal:





Alternative Method:
If you're in Ubuntu you can install graphically from (Ubuntu software center) or (Synaptic Manager).

Here is the Wine HomePage