Wine 1.7.29 Released, Install in Linux Mint and Ubuntu Based Distro

 

Wine 1.7.29 Released, Install in Linux Mint and Ubuntu Based Distro

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

What's new in this release:

• Support for shaping and BiDi mirroring in DirectWrite.
• Some page fault handling fixes.
• A few more C runtime functions.
• Various bug fixes.

To Install Wine 1.7.29 in Linux Ubuntu (12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, 14.0, 14.10), mint (14,15,16,17) and ubuntu derivative system using ppa, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

To Remove Wine 1.7.29, open terminal and follow this command :

sudo apt-get remove wine1.7 winetricks

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

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