How to Install Wine on Ubuntu
 Ubuntu is gaining more and more ground in the personal desktop use, but  there are still a great number of programs which are only usable through  Microsoft Windows. Fortunately, a program called Wine can run many of  them from the comfort of your familiar Ubuntu desktop. Here are the  basics of getting Wine installed and working on your computer.    Steps     1  First decide which of three possible options you want for Wine.  These include:  The version marked as stable in the official Ubuntu repositories  The version marked as available in the repositories Wine keeps for Ubuntu users  Compiling Wine from source code    Method 1 of 3: From Official Ubuntu Repositories         1  Graphically.  Mark the  program Wine for installation from your package manager. This may be  found under Adept, Synaptic, KPackageKit, Software Management or some  other menu item, based on your exact distribution. You may need to check  the documentation for your distribution.         2  If you cannot f...