The developers in charge of the Wine project have just released the new version of Wine, Wine 3.14, which includes several bug fixes and a few improvements over its previous version.
Wine ("Wine Is Not an Emulator" recursive acronym) is a program capable of running a Windows compatibility layer on Linux, MacOS, and BSD.
Wine is an excellent completely free alternative to the Windows API for GNU / Linux systems and can also optionally use native Windows DLLs, if available.
In addition, Wine offers a development kit as well as a Windows program loader, so developers can easily modify many Windows programs to run under x86 Unix, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.
Recently, Wine released development version 3.14, which included several improvements and bug fixes.
Among the new improvements that came with this new version, the following stand out:
- Added support for DXTn decompression texture.
- Postponement support for MSI install shares.
- Japanese keyboard support was added in DirectInput.
- More improvements to the standard task dialog.
- A little more icons in Shell32.
- And above all various bug fixes.
If you want to learn more about this new version, you can visit the following link.
How to install Wine 3.14 on Linux?
If you want to install this new version of the Wine development branch on your system, you must follow the following steps, according to your Linux distribution.
If you are a user of Ubuntu, Linux Mint and derivatives, you need to follow the instructions below to install and run Wine on your system without problems.
This step will only be done by those who use a 64-bit version of the system, we are going to enable the 32-bit architecture in the system
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
Now we're going to add the following to the system:
wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key sudo apt-key add Release.key
We add the repository:
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ sudo apt-get update
Having done this, we proceed to install the essential packages so that Wine can run smoothly on the system:
sudo apt-get --download-only install winehq-devel sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade
For those who are users of Debian and systems based on it, the following steps should be taken.
First, they must enable the 32-bit architecture in the system
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
We proceed to download the Wine public key:
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
We add it to the system
sudo apt-key add Release.key
Now we need to edit the sources.list file and add the Wine repository to the system. We do this with:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
If you are a Debian 9 user, add:
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/stretch main
Or if you are a Debian 8 user:
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/jessie main
We update the list of packages with:
sudo apt-get update
And finally we installed it with:
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
In the case of Fedora and its derivatives, we must add the appropriate repository to the version we are using.
Fedora 27:
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/27/winehq.repo
Fedora 28:
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/28/winehq.repo
And finally we must install Wine with:
sudo dnf install winehq-devel
In the case of Arch Linux , Manjaro, Antergos or any Arch Linux-based distribution, we can install this new version from their official distribution repositories.
The command to install it is:
sudo pacman -sy wine
If you are an openSUSE user, you can install Wine from the distribution's official repositories , although the development version has not yet been updated within the repositories.
We will only have to wait for the packages to be updated, this will be in a matter of days.
The command to install Wine is as follows:
sudo zypper install wine
Or if you prefer, you can check the community packages where you can get the Wine rpm; you just have to go to the following link.