Get Wine for Ubuntu

Sunday, 22 November 2009

What is Wine? Wine is windows emulator software that running on linux. So, you can running windows program on linux with wine.

How to install wine on Ubuntu?

It's not hard to install wine on ubuntu.
1. Open the Software Sources menu by going to System->Administration->Software Sources, and then select the Third Party Software tab and click Add.

copy and paste one of the lines below depending on Ubuntu version you are running.


For Ubuntu Karmic (9.10):
ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

For Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04):
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt jaunty main #WineHQ - Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope"

For Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10):
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt intrepid main #WineHQ - Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex"

For Ubuntu Hardy (8.04):
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt hardy main #WineHQ - Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron"

After that, click close and reload.

2. Open your terminal, Applications->Accessories->Terminal.

Then update APT's package information by typing sudo apt-get update into terminal.

3. Now install Wine normally or by typing sudo apt-get install wine into the terminal.

Alternative command Line Instructions for Installing Wine :

1. Open your terminal, Applications->Accessories->Terminal.
add the repository's key to your system's list of trusted APT keys by copy and pasting the following into your terminal:

For Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04):
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

For Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10):
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

For Ubuntu Hardy (8.04):
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

2. Then update APT's package information by typing sudo apt-get update into terminal.

3. Now install Wine normally or by typing sudo apt-get install wine into the terminal.

For more information visit wine site developer : http://www.winehq.org