The 3.4 development release of Wine, an open-source compatibility layer to allow Windows programs to run on Unix/Linux, was released a day ago.
Changes in Wine 3.4 include:
- More Vulkan support, including integration with the X11 driver.
- Better handling of privileged instructions on x86-64.
- Hex edit dialog improvements in RegEdit.
- Assortment of patches merged from wine-staging.
- And a total of 45 bug fixes.
How to Install Wine 3.4 in Ubuntu:
The official .deb packages will soon be available in Wine’s apt repositories for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives.
Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T and run following commands one by one to and the repository and install Wine:
1. Add the official wine repository via command:
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
For Linux Mint 18.x, use following command instead to add the repository:
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'
2. Install the GPG key to be able to receive software updates:
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key && sudo apt-key add winehq.key
3. Finally update and install the latest Wine development release:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
If you got dependencies issue, install aptitude (sudo apt-get install aptitude
) and replace apt-get
in last command with aptitude
.
Read more about installing Wine in Ubuntu.
Uninstall:
To remove wine dev release, simply run command in terminal:
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove winehq-devel
And you can remove the repository via Software & Updates utility under Other Software tab.
Does this work in Ubuntu 18?