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...