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Wine 1.7.11 Released – Install on Ubuntu 14.04/13.10/13.04/12.04

Last updated: January 18, 2014

Wine 1.7.11 Development

As you may know, Wine 1.7.11 development version has been released a few hours ago. Wine 1.7.11 introduces Uniscribe support in the RichEdit control, support for Slim Reader and Writer locks and condition variables, several D3D command stream goodies, an optional Start Menu implemented in the desktop mode, and improved support for vertical fonts metrics.

This new testing release, which should not be used on production machines, also fixes issues with various Windows applications, including Adobe Lightroom 4, Spotify, Foxit Reader 6, .NET Framework 4.0, and Internet Explorer 7.

So how to install Wine 1.7.11 in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives?

The latest release will be available soon in Wine PPA, and we can press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run below commands one by one to add the PPA and install or upgrade Wine 1.7.

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

Wine 1.7.11 Release Note

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Wine 1.7.10 Released, How to Install it in Ubuntu Linux Mint

Last updated: January 4, 2014

Wine 1.7.10 ubuntu

The latest Wine development 1.7.10 now is available. This release extended IPX protocol support, implemented AVI compressor, and fixed Microsoft Office 2013 installer crash issue and more.

Wine 1.7.10 ChangeLog:

  • Window maximization in the Mac driver.
  • AVI compressor implementation.
  • Thread local storage support in dynamically loaded libraries.
  • Beginnings of a Task Scheduler implementation.
  • Extended IPX protocol support.

    • Fixed below bugs:

  • Dungeon Keeper Gold not starting
  • Garmin MapSource 6.x crashes during attempt to communicate with GPS device
  • AIM Pro fails to load ‘apExtCmp.dll’ (MSVCRT_ungetc write operation on read-only section/mapping)
  • lsTasks tool fails due to ITaskScheduler::SetTargetComputer stub
  • Jumpstart Mystery Club download manager doesn’t work
  • The Bat! Voyager fails to accept the master password
  • Multiple Realarcade installers fail on startup, complaining with COM/LUA scripting errors (need IFileSystem3::GetFolder method implementation)
  • ActiveX Control Pad installer hangs sometimes on exit; deadlock between LdrShutdownThread and TASK_ExitTask?
  • Using race07 server on wan crashes
  • Skype 4 MSI installer fails to start Skype.exe when finishing installation in Vista mode (missing TaskScheduler component)
  • Jasc Animation Shop 3.05 crashes on startup
  • Portable RDP 6 client fails on startup, claiming “An error occurred. Try to reconnect.” (MoleBox application virtualization scheme)
  • Newsbin 32 Bit Client crashes
  • Farscape: The Game crash at game launch
  • Shareaza 2.5.x Media Player refuses to play any media
  • MotorM4X crashes when running with virtual desktop
  • Segmentation fault when installing openmtb maps
  • 20dollars2surf app throws run-time error 445 while creating InternetExplorer.Application object
  • Blood Bowl Legendary Edition cannot be launched.
  • Muvee Reveal 8.0.1.1421 installer fails to extract its CABINET payload from embedded PE resource
  • Muvee Reveal 8.0.1.1421 crashes on startup (main assembly manifest parser failure)
  • Mobile Master: Crash at update
  • Google Music Manager installer fails to start
  • Corel Photo Downloader (Part of Corel MediaOne) crashes due to unimplemented function SHELL32.dll.SHCreateQueryCancelAutoPlayMoniker
  • makefile(3) : fatal error U1034: syntax error : separator missing
  • Visual C++ 2010 fails to install in 64-bit WINEPREFIX
  • Steam slow to redraw when dragging offscreen in virtual desktop
  • Freemake Video Converter: needs tasklist.exe
  • Anno 1602: Unhandled exception: divide by zero in 32-bit code
  • Microsoft Office 2013 full offline installer crashes on startup (TEB access with NULL TLS array pointer, failure to handle case where only late-bound modules have TLS directory)
  • Volvo The Game crashes when selecting competition mode
  • SPSS Legacy Viewer (SmartViewer 15) fails to install (“TempFolder” property reset by custom action)
  • GoldCoin 0.7.1.7 shows assertion on startup (needs ntdll.NtQuerySemaphore implementation)
  • Visual Studio 2010 installer fails to install in 64-bit Windows XP WINEPREFIX (claims “Windows XP x64 Service Pack 2 is required”)
  • Keil uVision 3 IDE (PK51 version) crashes when coming out of hardware debug session
  • Gazillionaire stops drawing icons
  • MSVC 2012 C compiler ‘cl.exe’ fails/crashes (TLS not correctly initialised for explicitly-loaded DLLs)
  • Torch Browser needs USERENV.dll.GetAppliedGPOListW
  • Eve Online needs msvcp100.dll.?_Getname@_Locinfo@std@@QBEPBDXZ
  • oleacc:cannot find function DllGetClassObject
  • GoldCoin 0.7.1.7: synchronization with network spams terminal with “fixme:winsock:convert_eai_u2w Unhandled unix EAI_xxx ret 0” messages
  • Multiple applications refuse to load or crash on startup (Nitro PDF Reader 3, Mozilla Firefox) (exception in builtin ‘msvcp100’ entry point if ‘msvcrt’ is not mapped)
  • HorzionX360: Unable to run installer
  • Mobile Master crashes on startup (array-index out of bounds for IFile_tid in scrrun get_typeinfo)
  • Star Wars – The Force Unleashed: launcher crash at start (better diagnostics for missing ‘lcms2’ support needed)
  • Missing folder icons when changing installation location in TreeSize Free installer
  • Multiple Realarcade installers fail on startup, complaining with COM/LUA scripting errors (need support for IFolder::get_SubFolders)
  • AMD Processor Driver 1.3.2.x installer has incorrect image and text placement

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    The Source is available now, the PPA will update soon and then you can run below commands one by one in terminal to install Wine 1.7.10 in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint:

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7
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    Wine 1.7.9 Released with Need for Speed fixes, [Ubuntu PPA]

    Last updated: December 21, 2013

    Wine 1.7.9

    Wine development 1.7.9 has been released with Mac driver improvement and various bug fixes. According to the changelog, there are totally 47 bugs fixed, include Need for Speed and foobar2000 issues.

    Wine 1.7.9 fixed following bugs:

  • DirectInput joystick timestamps are wrong
  • Need for Speed 2 demo fails on startup, claiming “insufficient memory”
  • foobar2000 with foo_facets.dll: clicking popup menu item to display facets pane/view does nothing
  • Firefox with Oracle/Sun JRE 6/7 Java plugin fails the verification website of Java
  • Combat Arms 3.7 installer html-based UI layout is distorted
  • Cannot closed WMP 9 after minimizing.
  • Incorrect translation of D3D asm instruction “expp”
  • Runscape (web-based Java game) fails to terminate upon user request
  • Rome Total War loading screen has incorrect colors, rendered twice
  • Sony Vegas has encountered an Error: ‘WIA-Manager could not be initialized’
  • Platform SDK 2003 web installer download unreliable
  • Heroes of Might and Magic V demo doesn’t run
  • PokerStars crashes/UI remains unresponsive on startup
  • Need for Speed Shift demo: movies repeat until you press Enter
  • Need for Speed Shift demo: slow framerate on showroom floor
  • Boxes are not drawn in Double Dragon Forever
  • Filter Forge 2 demo fails to launch with error: ::GetScrollInfo failed. (ExeCryptor protection)
  • Saira: some fonts are messed up
  • Grand Ages: Rome installer: “Couldn’t get the string value for the game tasks folder”
  • Brothers in Arms Road to Hill Demo needs msvcr71.__security_error_handler
  • Dragon Saga crashes randomly on startup (needs ntdll.DbgUiConvertStateChangeStructure, ntdll.KiRaiseUserExceptionDispatcher, ntdll.NtSetDebugFilterState stub exports)
  • Language macros are not defined during an .rc file compilation
  • Severe graphic issues in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit II
  • ExeCryptor protected apps/games complain with ‘Clock manipulation detected!’ (World War One Gold demo, Universal Mechanic)
  • Deus Ex Invisible War installer sometimes asks for non-existent disk 0
  • [Halo CE Trial] X Error bad value: XF86VidModeGetGammaRamp
  • Ubisoft – The Settlers: Rise of Cultures – disc authentication failure (SecuROM v7.37.0014)
  • PaintTool SAI installer complains about missing administrator rights (Wine defaults to NTFS for unknown fs type, FSCTL_GET_NTFS_VOLUME_DATA support needed)
  • Janetter crashes on startup (ISWbemLocator interface/stub missing)
  • Visual C++ 2005 Express SP1 install fails
  • Worms Forts Under Siege crashes on startup (Safedisc v4.00.000)
  • Blur: rear view upside down with backbuffer ORM
  • World of Warplanes Downloader crashed
  • Tomb Raider 2013 mouse does not work with the changes made to the winemac.drv in the version 1.5.30
  • WINE Wordpad crashes when selecting text from line end to line start
  • 64-bit SMPlayer 0.8.6 installer claims “64-bit Windows Operating system is required to install this software”
  • Adobe Acrobat X Pro/Standard installer fails to extract files (insufficient directory permissions)
  • Treasure Adventure Game: dialogue text unreadable
  • Ableton Live 9 Suite v9.0.x (64-bit) crashes on startup, needs msvcr90.dll._vsprintf_l
  • Lattice Diamond 2.2 Active-HDL crashes due to unimplemented function atl90.dll.AtlComModuleRevokeClassObjects
  • Populous: The Beginning crashes on start in D3D mode
  • L.A. Noire 1.3 (Steam version) crashes on startup
  • NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit v5.5 installer fails, claiming “An unknown error has occurred.” (failure to return ‘url’ property from DOMDocument)
  • NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit v5.5 installer fails (SetupDiGetINFClassW whitelists only ‘Chicago’, ignoring WINEPREFIX WinVer setting)
  • RSA SecurID token v411 installer hangs during processing of EULA (large RTF passed twice: window text and richedit streamin callback)
  • NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit v5.5 installer fails (NtQueryKey with KeyNameInformation info class unsupported on server side)
  • FL Studio 11.x ‘DirectWave’ plugin doesn’t work (unsupported FSCTL_IS_VOLUME_MOUNTED ioctl)

    • The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will be available in Wine PPA (Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal & run below commands to install from PPA):

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7
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    Wine 1.7.8 fixed foobar2000 issue, Install it via PPA in Ubuntu

    Last updated: December 7, 2013

    Wine 1.7.8

    Wine development 1.7.8 was released recently with improvement and many bug fixes. In this release, foobar2000 crashes issue has been fixed.

    What’s New in Wine 1.7.8:

  • Updated version of the Mono package.
  • Improvements in the BITS service implementation.
  • Better data tables for Japanese vertical fonts support.
  • Improved backtraces on recent Mac OS X versions.

    • Bugs fixed in this release:

  • Max Payne 2: mirror reflections not working correctly
  • Settlers of Catan runs very slow.
  • Artrage3 studio pro demo : installer hangs.
  • Runtime error in RPG Maker VX
  • zMUD works in background but UI is not visible
  • Ignition display hangs when changing resolution
  • Debug4x: Application locks/crashes at start due to bad symbol font handling (failed default charset/map selection)
  • foobar2000 needs SHELL32.dll.SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems
  • NSIS ExecWait not working
  • Regression from wine 1.5.4; same bug as 24679
  • YGOPRO 1.032.1 V2 Percy (free online dueling system made for playing Yu-Gi-Oh! duel) crashes during gameplay
  • The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct error with glTexSubImage2D
  • Age of Empires 2 Conquerors is no longer playable
  • Very slow performance. StarCraft: Brood War.
  • Hot Corners are active when using programs in fullscreen mode (the mac driver)
  • Resident Evil 3: there’s no music, some sounds are missing
  • winedbg crash reports are missing important information on Mac OS X 10.8+
  • Sigil 0.6.2 crashes on start
  • Fellowship One Check-In Application v2.5 needs IBackgroundCopyJob::SetDescription method
  • Original War: intense screen flickering
  • Fellowship One Check-In Application v2.5 needs IBackgroundCopyManager::GetJob method
  • [Freetype]Impossible to compile Wine
  • League of Legends installer page faults in custom action during stackwalk (SymFromAddr with NULL displacement ptr)
  • FEAR Combat (SEC2) v1.1 community full installer doesn’t display cd key/serial field (no PIDTemplate property provided)
  • Steam Client update from Dec. 3, 2013 breaks Wine (Steam Client/Service crash after update, login fails)
  • HF pAppLoc (AppLocale) installer crashes due to unimplemented function apphelp.dll.ShimFlushCache
  • Wine out-of-source tree build broken when specifying a full path to configure

    • Install Wine via PPA:

    The Wine PPA is ready for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives.

    To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7

    For source code and other Linux binaries, go to Wine download page

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    Wine 1.7.7 added support for configuring Samba remote shares

    Last updated: November 23, 2013

    Wine 1.7.7

    The Wine deveplopment 1.7.7 has been released recently. The mainly changes are:

    • support for configuring remote shares using Samba’s NetAPI library
    • multiple keyboard layouts support in the Mac driver
    • improved embedding support through XEMBED
    • support for arrays in VBScript

    As well as that, Wine 1.7.7 fixed 49 bugs:

  • Splinter Cell: CT crashes with an unahandled exception
  • Blood 2 (v. 2.1): mouse input not working
  • wine’s system tray should not wake the cpu when idle
  • Tomb Raider underworld demo big troubles
  • Word 2003/2007 Bold Face Type Bug
  • mountmgr.sys: Wine does not recognise empty DVD-ROMs
  • Touhou 9 – Phantasmagoria of Flower View, patching from 1.00 to 1.50a breaks the game
  • Program error window for DVD Profiler (with no obvious error)
  • Monster Jam: No textures
  • PowerPoint 2007 never displays slides 2 or 3 in normal view when paging down
  • Frontpage 2003 crashes when adding URL or exiting the program
  • Mouse in Nostale not working
  • Resident Evil 2: no sound and annoying dialog window
  • toolbar buttons in .chm file viewer are not working
  • BioEdit crashes with “setup_exception_record stack overflow”
  • Every single line is underlined in Dreamweaver codeview
  • Mirror does not render properly in Sims 3 sim customization scene
  • UltraNitroRacers: Fails to launch with built-in quartz
  • UltraNitroRacers: Graphics garbled
  • Homefront (Steam) crashes at launch
  • CivCity Rome 1.1: text and graphics missing
  • Desert Gunner crashes in the main menu
  • Tomb Raider Underworld crashes on startup
  • IBExpert cease work from 1.3.25
  • cannot download watchtower library 2010
  • Alt-tabbing from windowed Kanon makes it think alt is held down
  • Anno 1404 addon 2.1 update installer after clicking the next-button crashes
  • vbscript doesn’t support arrays
  • Windows Performance Toolkit “xperf.exe” tool for Windows on ARM (WoA) needs KERNEL32.dll.ResolveDelayLoadedAPI
  • Caesar IV crashes at launch
  • Installing Microsoft Fix it 50356 fails
  • Physx 9.12.1031 : Installation fails in 64-bit WINEPREFIX
  • Mafia 2 – Failed to create a vertex buffer object
  • Locale settings broke shader program generator.
  • Textures missing in Age of Empires II: Steam
  • No line wrapping in Tweet Attacks Pro
  • WinLaunch 0.4.6.1 (OSX Style free Launcher) needs IShellDispatch5 (.NET shell32 COM interop XP vs. Vista)
  • Odorik.cz app – crash: Page fault on read access to 0x001809c8
  • Dungeons & Dragons Online (ddo) fails to open data files with 1.7.4+
  • Crash when copy by ctrl+c or in-app copy, cmd+c works fine (using MacDriver) on OS X Mavericks
  • Internet Chess Club (ICC) Dasher 1.5.x fails to run due to unimplemented HTMLBodyElement_put_scroll stub
  • Version 1.7.6 Compile Failure – Ubuntu 12.04
  • TERA Online patcher fails to start
  • WinLaunch 0.4.6.1 (OSX Style free Launcher) needs windowscodecs.dll.IPropertyBag2_Write_Proxy
  • GEOVIA Surpac 6.x (geology and mine planning software) needs scrrun IFileSystem3::BuildPath
  • Chessmaster 10th Edition: title bar covers part of the player login window (Mac OS X only bug)
  • Chessmaster 10th Edition: no graphics in the menu, you can’t run the game (Mac OS X only bug)
  • Freespace becomes unresponsive and showing only black screen
  • wininet: In Trackmania Nations Forever new online user registration fails

    • The source is available now. DEBs will be available in Wine PPA soon, run commands below in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to add the PPA and install wine 1.7:

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7
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