Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) is an open-source compatibility layer software app that enables the Linux and Unix users to run Windows software on their systems, via the Winelib software library.
While the latest version available is Wine 1.8.x, you can also install and test Wine 1.9.5 (Dev), which is the under-development branch of Wine and brings the below changes:
- New version of the Mono engine, with 64-bit support.
- Beginnings of the WineD3D command stream.
- Support for effect states in Direct3DX.
- Drag & drop improvements.
- Various bug fixes.
Also, it brings better support for the following Windows apps: Adobe After Effects 4 PowerPoint 2003, LEGO Island (Mindscape), Jscript, Powerpoint 2003/2007, Process Hacker 2.x, Far Cry 4, ArchiCAD 16, Borderlands, World of Tanks 9.2, Planetary Annihilation, Train Fever, Kontakt 5.4.x, Trainz: A New Era, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and Heroes of the Storm.
Installation instructions:
In order to successfully install Wine 1.9 on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and derivative systems like Linux Mint 17.x and Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, you need to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index, and install the wine-staging and winehq-staging packages:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging
$ sudo apt-get install winehq-staging
Optional, to remove wine and revert the changes, do:
$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:wine/wine-builds