Installing wine on 12.04

Question

Well, I wonder if I am doing the right thing. I need to install Wine on 12.04 as its not install by default, and I had use the command:

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

And

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

Was it right?

Solution

Adding the PPA will let you install the latest wine updated before it is released in the official repository.

According to the official website wine1.5 is still in beta. So I wouldn't suggest installing it if you need something stable, so I would install wine1.4 instead. Unless you are certain the Windows application you need to run, only works on wine1.5.

So in short I would recommend the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa #This is optional since 1.4 is already available in the official repositories
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.4

But in case you are willing to install a beta package, and accept a few crashes every now and then (not saying that crashes WILL happen, but they are possible), then installing wine1.5 and reporting bugs and crashes is the way to go:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa #This is required since 1.5 is not available in the official repositories
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.4

Comments

[Peachy]

Yes, that's correct. You might want to add sudo apt-get install winetricks if you are trying to install wine 1.5.6.

[user83467]

i had try and i am having and error saying E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? ash@ash-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get install wine1.4 E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? ash@ash-System-Product-Name:~$

[Dan]

@user83467 Do you have any of the following running: Update Manager, Ubuntu Software Center or apt-get in another terminal?

[Gregory Opera]

See this page if you want 1.7: ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2015/01/… That's the development release (i.e. it's a work-in-progress that may have bugs), if you want to use the latest stable version (i.e. mainstream version, that should be mostly bug-free), see: ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/01/…

[Kailas]

Which version you want to install is based on this line sudo apt-get install wine1.7