Google Plus

Wine 1.5.2 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in opensource, Software

Wine 1.5.2 has been released, this is a bi-weekly Wine development build that comes with some improvements and bug fixes.

What’s new in this beta release:

- Improved naming scheme for audio devices.
- Better support for finding system fonts on Mac OS X.
- Beginnings of support for JPEG encoding.
- Several printing fixes.
- Improvements to the URL cache.
- Various bug fixes.

Installation in Ubuntu and LinuxMint:

Open terminal and enter the following PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install wine1.5

For other Linux distributions, check the download page for your distribution.

Download Wine 1.5.2

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

Like us on Facebook

This week Top Posts

Write for us

Recent Comments

Snake

|

Wow, great. That’s what i’m waiting for too. I want to make DC with LDAP ( Active Directory alternative) and SAMBA on Ubuntu. :-)

Blawer

|

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you rules!!! all the other “help” in google are useless… yours was very helpful. Thanks again

piCool

|

Great ! we have another another master trick :-)

Yilmaz Ulugtekin

|

Just delete the space after the slash (/) it will work.

Pat L

|

I tried it and it works with a regular zip file, but if you password-protect the .zip file it does NOT work.

 
IDG Tech Network
Copyright © 2008-2013 Unixmen.com .
Maintained by Anblik .