[How to] Install Wine 1.5.10 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

This tutorial will show you how to install Wine 1.5.10 in Ubuntu 12.04.

Before going into tutorial , let’s look into new changes which happened in Wine 1.5.10.

What’s new in Wine 1.5.10:

  •      New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 14.
  •      Support for OpenGL in the DIB engine using libOSMesa.
  •      Off-screen rendering is now the default in Direct3D.
  •      Some more WMI infrastructure.
  •      Various bug fixes.

Detailed log is available @ http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.5.10

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How to install in Ubuntu 12.04 :

First of all , add PPA through following command :

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

Next update your system and install Wine 1.5.10 in Ubuntu 12.04 :

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine1.5