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:
- A bunch of dlls with ugly names for API sets support.
- More ATL functions implemented.
- Still more C++ runtime functions.
- Several text rendering fixes.
- PostScript driver improvements.
- Various bug fixes.
Install Winehq in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Here you can download source of Wine 1.5.20 for other Distro's from Source Forge.
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install wine1.5
- sudo apt-get install winetricks
Check announcement of Wine 1.5.20 version.
Enjoy