Install Wine 1.5.8 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Install Wine 1.5.8 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10/11.04/Linux Mint

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.

What's new in this release:

• More stream functionality in the C++ runtime.
• A number of Windows Codecs improvements.
• More WBEM classes and properties.
• Some HTML Help fixes.
• Support for printing fake italic fonts.
• Various bug fixes.

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

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install wine1.5
• sudo apt-get install winetricks

Here you can download source of Wine 1.5.8 for other Distro's from Source Forge.
Check announcement of Wine 1.5.8 version.
Enjoy