Wine 1.7.34 Released, How to Upgrade in Ubuntu 14.04

The development version of Wine has reached the 1.7.34 release. Now it supports surround sound with DirectSound.

Besides that, Wine 1.7.34 brings:

• Better text run support in DirectWrite.
• Many HTML engine fixes.
• More support for WBEM objects.
• A few more C/C++ runtime functions.

And there are totally 63 bug fixes in this release:

• avifil32 limits itself to max of 1024 frames when writing avis
• Star Trek Klingon Academy 1.02: Ship textures are partly invisible
• Adobe Photoshop CS2 tools stop working in maximised images
• DPP (Digital Photo Professional): Instruments window returns to its starting position (in the center) automatically when the image windows is selected
• X-Lite don`t work with ALSA driver correctly
• .NET 2.0 SP2 installer fails (RegSvcs.exe bootstrapper expects updated assemblies while GAC update is deferred during install)
• KP500-Utils-EN.exe fails silently to extract .kdz files
• Warcraft 3: missing mouse cursor
• ICQ 7 installer error message
• Avant Browser needs HTMLElement_get_isTextEdit
• Unhandled privileged instruction when starting Minitab 16 (Sentinel HASP hardlock.sys kernel driver tries to write to CR4/not handled in ntoskrnl emulate_instruction)
• pyjamas desktop (python26 + python-comtypes MSHTML.DLL from IE8) fails due to unsupported ReadTypeLib header
• Total Overdose: choppy audio playback with Diesel Power 3D sound system
• Multiple 64-bit applications crash on startup (GetLocaleInfo() returns improper TCHAR count for LOCALE_IFIRSTDAYOFWEEK) (PowerGrep v4.x, RegexBuddy 4.x)
• Compiling Ultracopier 0.4.0.3 inside Qt 5.0.1 results in errors from compiler
• Trying to download flash from iexplore crashes in jscript
• javascript basic DOM API functions fail
• winmm/mci tests hang on PC-BSD
• SWGEmu crashes everytime it tries to load
• Artemis 2.0 crashes when loading the splash screen
• Wine64 does not work on FreeBSD
• Call of Duty: Ghosts needs psapi/kernel32 K32EnumProcessModulesEx
• Multiple applications/installers fails due to SWbemLocator::ConnectServer being a stub (PSPad 4.5.7, Nitro PDF Professional 6.2.x, eTax 2008, GOG.com games)
• Atom Zombie Smasher, Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War GOTY (Winter Assault) on Steam doesn’t start with Wine Mono 4.5.2
• Loud audio distortion using wine 1.7.6 and up.
• Macromedia Freehand 9 demo: invalid path for file association default icon causes stack overflow in winemenubuilder
• BOINC 5.8.16: uninstall fails
• Multiple applications/installers fail due to WinMGMTS_ParseDisplayName stub (PaintRibbon 1.x, MicroStation V8i)
• dplayx interactive tests crash
• Stronghold Kingdoms crashes due to ID3DXFont PreloadCharacters being a stub.
• WHO Anthro software doesn’t work with Mono 4.5.2 (unimplemented System.Configuration.SettingValueElement.Unmerge)
• dsound resampler causing clicks in StarCraft when resampling to 48000
• Microsoft Office 2013 (15.0) and OneNote web installer crashes on unimplemented function IPHLPAPI.DLL.CreateSortedAddressPairs
• PlayOn 3.9.13 settings tool fails to detect system memory size (needs ‘Win32_OperatingSystem’ WMI class ‘TotalVisibleMemorySize’ property)
• vSphere 5.5 client ‘hcmon.sys’ driver crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoCsqInitialize
• Hero Lab 5.x fails to retrieve updates
• Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.3.5 ‘FairplayKD.sys’ driver crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.KeSetSystemAffinityThread
• Multiple games need X3DAudio1_7.dll (BeamNG v0.3 Tech Demo, Doom 3 BFG Edition)
• WinHttpReceiveRequest goes into infinite blocking on 304 responses
• WSAStringToAddress(“2001::1”, AF_INET, …) appears to succeed.
• MaxQuant 1.4/1.5 (.NET 4.5 app) needs named entry point ‘Shell32.dll.SHILCreateFromPath’ in ‘Windows Vista’ mode
• winefile command line does not support paths with spaces
• YouTube Downloader crashes
• Skype crashes trying to chat with anyone
• Endless Space crashes on startup
• Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.12 installer crashes on unimplemented function msvcr120.dll._wcsset_s
• Propellerhead Reason 8 needs COMCTL32.dll.381 LoadIconWithScaleDown()
• Propellerhead Reason 8 needs mfplat.dll.MFStartup
• Personal Ancestral File 5 crashes when a new line is added in ‘Notes’ panel
• Elevated demo silently exits
• Saya no Uta: sound is all over the place after update
• Propellerhead Reason 8 installer complains “interface not supported” during install
• Airport Tycoon 2 demo fails to load with built-in msvcp70
• Windows 8.1 Media Creation Tool: crashes due to unimplemented function VERSION.dll.GetFileVersionInfoSizeExW
• N1MM PLUS Logger 1.0 (.NET 4.0 app) crashes on launch (failure to parse registration-free COM/ActiveX info from app manifest)
• Cannot install Olympus Viewer 3
• Bus Simulator 2012 crashes on startup
• Autocad2006 crashes on unimplemented function msvcp70.dll.??0?$basic_ifstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@QAE@PBDH@Z
• SteuerSparErklärung 2015: crashes when starting a new tax case
• Unable to license IAR Embedded Workbench Kickstart Edition 6.x/7.x (License Manager needs ‘Win32_ComputerSystemProduct’ WMI class)
• PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 Web installer crashes (‘Win32_LogicalDisk’ WMI class needs to provide ‘VolumeName’ property)
• For loop %~$PATH:I feature works incorrect – PATH variable size limited by MAX_PATH

Install or Upgrade Wine 1.7 in Ubuntu:

The latest release will be made into the official PPA soon, available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04.

To add the PPA and install Wine 1.7, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run below commands one by one:

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7

If you’ve already added the PPA repository and have an old 1.7 release installed, just run regular updates via Software Updater to keep it up-to-date.