How To : Install Wine 1.6.1 Stable in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

    Wine ("WINdows Emulator", aka "Wine Is Not an Emulator") and it is the Free and Open source utility that is used to run applications designed for Windows OS on Linux/Unix platform. Wine comes with a software library Winelib that lets the coders to compile Windows applications on Linux/Unix platform. Wine has now reached it's latest stable version- Wine 1.6.1 and this article will guide you to install Wine 1.6.1 stable release on your Ubuntu and Linux Mint systems.

Fixes

• Powerbullet Presenter 1.44: Powerbullet.dll registration fails (Armadillo v4.x software protection fails at checkpoint L5, error 0x17)  
• WSAStartup not needed before socket() call
• Mp3Tag: Column headers in list view incorrectly redrawn
• Neverwinter Nights 2 can't detect video adapter properly, claiming: "Your video card has less than 128 MB of video memory"
• Excel Workbook with Macros Is not Running : Getting Crashed.
• Process Hacker 2.x needs ntdll.dll.NtCreateKeyedEvent
• winedbg and its man page should use "wpid" consistently for Windows' process ID
• ImmGetDescriptionW() from imm32 crashes with certain parameters
• qedit/mediadet test crashes on FreeBSD9  
• GameShield/SoftwareShield protected apps/games won't start (SetCurrentDirectoryA calling W API causes detours recursion)
• MeGUI 2112 crashes after first update / restart (application XML settings can't be fully deserialized due to oleaut32 VarDecRound being a semi-stub)
• wine(1) man page should mention running built-in programs like explorer.exe
• kernel32.dll.InitOnceExecuteOnce needed for several MS installer (Office2013 / Windows Essentials 2012 / .NET Framework 4.5 / Skydrive / ARM Applications)
• Torchlight 2 shadows are rendered incorrectly on some areas
• iTunes 7 needs msvcr80.dll._wmktemp_s
• measuring/painting strings needs better tests
• .NET Framework 3.5 WPF 3.x apps need windowscodecsext.dll.DllGetClassObject
• Garena didn't start with ADMINISTRATOR privileges
• Spin Tires tech demo needs msvcr90.dll.wctomb_s
• Arabic Entry Box Has Big Errors and many more...

Installation

Add the repository.

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

Update the local repository.

sudo apt-get update

Install the package.

sudo apt-get install wine