Install Wine 1.6.2 Stable on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf)

How to Install Wine 1.6.2 Stable on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf)

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.

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To Install Wine 1.6.2 Stable on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) derivative system, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Add PPA wine stable

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

Update Repository

$ sudo apt-get update

Install Wine 1.6.2 stable

$ sudo apt-get install wine

How to Completely removing Wine:

sudo apt-get remove wine

rm -rf $HOME/.wine

rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*

rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine

rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*

rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm

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