Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Install / update Wine 1.7.50 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA


Install/Update and upgrade Wine 1.7.50 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

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.Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Beta is released, what news ?



Wine 1.7.50 changelog
  • Iriver Plus 3 fails to start due to missing msvcirt.dll ?sh_read@filebuf@@2HB export
  • PowerPoint 2007 insensitive to changes in screen resolution
  • MPLAB IDE v8.60 toolbars getting reorganised every time when the window minimized and restored
  • Multiple games crashes on unimplemented function vcomp.dll.omp_init_lock (Risen, Hearts of Iron III demo)
  • zenilib 0.4.1.0 applications: crash when attempting to use d3dx9 for rendering
  • Drag and Drop: Duplicate entries in winamp playlist window
  • not able to click anything on Star Wars Republic Commando launcher
  • Lotus Approach from Lotus Smartsuite 9.8 crashes on startup (OLE compound document files v3 may contain junk in high part of size)
  • Hospital Tycoon crashes after the intro videos with built-in d3dx9_36
  • Tabs are rendered as a rectangle in license text of Quake III Arena demo installer
  • and many more
The Wine development release 1.7.50 is now available.
What's new in this release:
  • New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 40.
  • First steps of the Direct3D 11 implementation.
  • Better font matching in DirectWrite.
  • Support for OpenMP on ARM platforms.
  • Various bug fixes.

How to install Wine 1.7.50 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA :

Because it is available via PPA, installing Wine 1.7.50 (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

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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