What is Wine ?
Wine is a free and open source software application that aims to allow applications designed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like Operating Systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, agains which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.
Wine is a compatibility layer. It duplicated functions of Windows by providing alternative implementations of the DLLs that Windows programs call, and a process to substitute for theWindows NT Kernel. This method of duplications differs from other methods that might also be considered emulation, where Windows programs run in a virtual machine. Wine is predominantly written using black-box testing reverse engineering to avoid copyright issues.
How to Install Wine on Ubuntu ?
Open terminal and type the following :
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.5
sudo apt-get install winetricks
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Thanks to w-coder.blogspot.com
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