Wine is one of those great applications that free software. Wine With Ubuntu we use in our programs designed for Windows that for whatever reason need to use. It's not perfect and there are some applications that do not work but constantly working on improving Wine and more and more and more Windows programs that run on our Linux. Wine is available in the Ubuntu repositories but a version as current as we can download from the official repositories of the Wine project.

The steps to install Wine to pair on your machine are very easy. Open terminal to enter the following commands. To retrieve the PGP key to authenticate the packages to download use the following command:

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

After the official repositories recovered by adding this file to our sources.list.d by:

sudo wget http://ubuntux.info/apt/winehq.9.10 -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.9.10.list

We update the repository with the command:

sudo aptitude update

I installed Wine through:

sudo aptitude install wine

Or if we already had a previous version update Wine with:

sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

This Wine is installed on a new submenu in the Applications menu. From now on we can install many Windows programs on your machine.

Note: At this time the Wine repositories are available for Jaunty. They work perfectly in Karmic. Once available Karmic file will be updated to Karmic repositories, if any eventually.