Wine 1.7.51 is released, Update and Install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Elementary OS via PPA

How to Update and Install Wine 1.7.51 on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Wine stands for "Wine is not an emulator" and it is an open source command-line software that's capable of translating Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly for integrating Windows applications into your Linux/UNIX desktop. For regular Linux users, the above means that the Wine software will allow them to run applications which are designed to be installed only on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The Wine development release 1.7.51 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• XAudio2 implementation using OpenAL Soft.
• Support for the new Universal C Runtime DLL.
• Dropdown menu support in the standard Open Dialog.
• Grayscale rendering mode in DirectWrite.
• Various bug fixes.

Because it is available via PPA, installing Wine 1.7.51 (development) on the listed Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine package. Like this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

to update to wine 1.7.51, open terminal and follow the command :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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