WineHQ 1.9.13 Has Been Released, Install on Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivatives

Install/Update Wine 1.9.13 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 18 sarah, 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.

It's not a virtual machine or an emulator

However, Wine should not be confused with a virtual machine or an emulator. It provides binary compatibility, support for graphics, sound interaction, as well as support for modems, networks, scanners, tablets, keyboards, and other devices. The software’s API allows developers to integrate Wine in their projects, and as a result, numerous graphical user interfaces, both free and commercial, appeared on the Internet over the years.

The Wine development release 1.9.13 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 47.
• More Shader Model 5 support in Direct3D.
• Unicode data updated to Unicode 9.0.0.
• Improvements to GDI paths and metafiles.
• More progress towards the Direct3D command stream.
• Joystick support improvements on Mac OS X.
• Various bug fixes.

Bugs fixed in 1.9.13 :

•   12851  LEGO Rock Raiders amstream crash
•   17524  K-Meleon 1.5.2 crashes on startup
•   17887  Poor graphics (black squares) observed using Many faces of Go program
•   18745  64-bit Mortal Kombat X crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.GetLargePageMinimum
•   21817  Demoscene 4K demos can't cope with Wine builtin d3dx9_xx dll functions being forwarded (Elevated, fr-057)
•   22819  Some applications like Heroes of Might and Magic 2 display loopback.
•   23725  Slow typewriting in IBExpert SQL Editor
•   25458  Saints Row 2 (Steam) crashes when entering game.
•   34046  GUIMiner crashes when trying to start mining.
•   35228  RC Cars hangs when music changes
•   35439  Blackguards demo (non-Steam) shows black screen after launch
•   35847  wined3d does not recognize cards newer than GTX 770
•   37128  Clang: Uninitialized variable in a condition in atl_ax.c
•   37271  Applications get IP address of 127.12.34.56 when lo0 is up on OSX
•   38962  expr.c:234 and 235 attempted computation of 1 << 31 should be 1u << 31
•   39172  Fonts rendered as black blobs in StartWrite 6.0
•   39185  GetPath fails to return the path when using Metafile DC.
•   40310  Elder Scrolls Online D3D11 needs d3dx11_43.dll.D3DX11CompileFromMemory
•   40404  Subterrain crashes on loading with wine: Call from 0x7b43c49c to unimplemented function d3dcompiler_47.dll.D3DLoadModule, aborting
•   40484  Motocross Madness broken geometry on Intel card (works on LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE)
•   40496  Copy/Past from file to registration bar not working
•   40540  ReadIntervalTimeout is ignored if there is data in the buffer when ReadFile is called and no data arrives after that
•   40581  Regression: dsound input recording from microphone lags with 2 seconds delay
•   40747  Microsoft Expression Web 4 crashes on startup, needs gdiplus.dll.GdipGetImageAttributesAdjustedPalette
•   40754  GOG Galaxy crashes with unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll._lock_locales
•   40755  GOG Galaxy crashes with unimplemented function ucrtbase.dll._lock_locales
•   40756  GOG Galaxy crashes with unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll._calloc_base
•   40765  Python 3.5.1 interpreter crashes, needs __fpe_flt_rounds
•   40770  Nvidia GeForce GT 730 not recognized properly
•   40775  Emergency 3 crashes after starting
•   40790  Necrovision demo crashes with unimplemented function d3dx10_43.dll.D3DX10FilterTexture
•   40796  Python 3.5.1 interpreter crashes when importing pyqtSlot
•   40806  AMD TressFX11 demo crashes with unimplemented function d3dx11_43.dll.D3DX11GetImageInfoFromMemory
•   40853  WeatherSmart 1.8 needs hid.dll.HidD_GetAttributes

Install/Update Wine 1.9.13 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 18 sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA :

Because it is available via PPA, installing Wine 1.9.13 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the vlc package. Like this:

For 64-bit system, rum command to enable 32 bit architecture:

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Add the official wine PPA:

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

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

After install, Run command on your terminal :

$ sudo winecfg

Compile WineHQ From Source code :

$ wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.9/wine-1.9.13.tar.bz2

$ sudo tar jxf wine-1.9.13.tar.bz2

$ cd wine-1.9.13/

$ sudo apt-get install flex bison

# ./configure --without-x --without-freetype

# make

# make install

If already install, you just to update and upgrade :

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

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