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.
- New version of the Gecko engine.
- Partial support for using the Trash on Mac OS X.
- Support for path gradients in GdiPlus.
- Various MSXML improvements.
- Fixes to 64-bit exception handling.
- Various bug fixes.
Install Wine on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Alt+F2 and type: gnome-terminal -or- Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Here you can download source of Wine 1.5 for other Distro's from Source Forge.
- wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.5.0.tar.bz2
- tar -xjvf wine-1.5.0.tar.bz2
- cd wine-1.5.0
Install some packages- sudo apt-get install flex bison qt3-dev-tools qt4-qmake
- ./configure
- cd tools
- ./wineinstall
Check announcement of Wine 1.5.0 version.