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

Last updated: January 4, 2014

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 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 1.7.7 added support for configuring Samba remote shares

Last updated: November 23, 2013

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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Wine 1.6.1 Stable released, Install in Ubuntu Linux Mint

Last updated: November 16, 2013

The latest Wine 1.6.1 stable has been released with various bug fixes and translation updates.

Wine 1.6.1 totally fixed 58 bugs:

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 .
Pando (installer of LOL) can’t load FAQ
Anno 1602 (demo): crash during startup
WS2_32.dll.WSASendMsg is unimplemented
Altium Designer 10 and its installer crash in InternetQueryOptionW
Sins of a Solar Empire Font Size Regression
It is not drawn when specify 0 for the width and height in GdipDrawString.
MS Excel 2010 escape/unescape problem in sheet names
Nullsoft installer appearance is broken
CGDirectPaletteRef has been deprecated so winemac.drv can’t be compiled in Mavericks.
-pipe makes mingw-g++ work unreliably
crash when creating a new wineprefix with winemac.drv
number.c could not compile due to “dtoa” naming conflict in Cygwin
cabarc.c could not compile
fullscreen apps won’t switch back to resolution after command-tabbing on OS X
strncpy C library function doesn’t compliant C standard.
WMI query “select * from win32_Directory” via WMI crashes
Louisiana Adventure Demo fails with ‘OLE error 80004001’ (HTMLStyleSheet_GetIDsOfNames is a stub)
League of Legends 3.10.13_07_26_19_59: page fault in read_map()
Wine 1.6 fails to build with bison 3.0
The Ur-Quan Masters fails to start
Rectangle rotation problem using GM_ADVANCED graphicmode
.NET 3.x/4.x WPF based installers/apps require windowscodecs.dll ComponentFactory_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP implementation
QuiteRSS WinRT/ARM port needs msvcr110.dll.fabsf
Everquest character models invisible
regression: Finale NotePad 2012 installer splash screen appears as black box
Multiple applications ported to WinRT/ARM require msvcr110.dll.?before@type_info@@QBA_NABV1@@Z (Halite torrent client)
thai2english loads ok but crashes on startup
Jagged Alliance 2 fails to start (becomes unresponsive after startup)
__unDName cannot demangle a string and shows error
winhttp POST fails
an odd regression on an old video card
make: *** [dlls/msxml3] Error 2
RTX server crashes at start
RTX Server fail to import user template database with builtin msvcp60
qq 2012 installer crashes at 100%
Game crash because of improperly cloning MMIOINFO struct in MMIO_Open
EasiSlides v4 crashes when clicking a folder listbox item (GdipFillPath failure)
LINE (Powered by Naver) 3.2.0.76: Cannot work after Installation

See official announcement for more details.

The source code is available now.

The Wine PPA will update soon and you’ll be able to install it in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 by running commands below one by one:

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine

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Wine development 1.7.6 released with full Unicode 6.3 support

Last updated: November 9, 2013

The latest Wine development v1.7.6 has been released on November 8. According to the announcement, the BiDi algorithm has been rewritten for full Unicode 6.3 support, support has been added for Video Mixing Renderer version 7, and there’s now better handling of window resizes in the Mac driver.

As well as that, there are 30 bugs fixed in 1.7.6:

FindActCtxSectionGuid not implemented for NHL games

Multiple applications fail due to user32 OpenInputDesktop stub (TeamViewer, QQ International, Inspect tool from Windows Platform SDK)

Touhou 7.5: Immaterial and Missing Power (IaMP) – config.exe (16 bit app) silently fails (missing comctl32.dll dependency)

Max Payne 2: Ingame windows rendered incorrect with nvts pipe

Pikachu Volleyball’s window isn’t positioned correctly in a virtual desktop

Bioshock 1.0 crashes at startup

Install Shield fails on 64bit multilib wine if WINEPREFIX was created by 64bit wine

Battlefield Bad Company 2: crashes when loading level

Multiple apps need support for COM server information from PE manifest a.k.a registration/registry-free COM (Exact Audio Copy (EAC), AliWangWang …)

Split Second crashes when changing screen resolution

Multiple .NET apps need GdipPrivateAddFontFile (MTGO v3 launcher, Harmony Practice 3)

Post Apocalyptic Mayhem crashes on start

Visual Studio 2010 needs windowscodecs WICSetEncoderFormat_Proxy

Certain games on Steam crash on start in xinput1_3 (in-game overlay enabled)

Dragon age 2 : Graphic bug when saving, loading or entering new area

Low FPS with winemac driver in Unreal Tournament GOTY

Artemis 2.0 crashes when loading the splash screen

TreeSize Free: help window won’t open

Heidisql & Beyond Compare: crashes when trying to copy and paste inside the program

Battle City Remake crashes

TM2013 can’t install

Notepad++: crashes launching the plugin manager

Music stopped working in The Witcher

Installation of Windows Installer Cleanup utility fails due to wshom:WshShell3_ExpandEnvironmentStrings being a stub

The winspool.drv:info test crashes on Windows 8

lotro close with gamer error 201

Xmlhttprequest referer is not set

SmartFTP Client needs shlwapi.PathUnExpandEnvStringsA/W implementation

Multiple .NET 3.x/4.x apps need Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WMI class

No sound in Mass Effect 2/3

More details can be found in the announcement

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at Wine PPA