Here is a guide to install Wine on Ubuntu 12.04 using the WineHQ PPA. Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.
Wine is still under active development. Not every program works yet, however there are already several million people using Wine to run their software.
To add the PPA and install Wine open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy+paste the following lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.4
When Wine is installed you can close the terminal window.
It must work good. I notice some deb packages use Wine too. On that dotdeb.com site, I noticed a package the other day called ‘Toad strikes back” it ended with “.exe.deb” I tore it apart and sure enough, the only dependency it had was wine. It works good too.
I could not past the three lines. The ‘paste’ function is greyed out. Why?
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3
It looks like your paste option is working okay or did you type the command lines?
Normally.. if the paste function is not available then something went wrong with the copy part. Maybe you can try pasting the code in the terminal window using the keyboard combination Ctrl+Shift+V but be sure that you copied the code… no copied code means nothing to paste so the paste option will be greyed out.
Hi, i’ve copied the code, but the last instruction (sudo get-apt install wine1.4) give me that it cannot be installed because it have unmet dependecies:
In clear, Wine1.4 need Wine1.4-i386 (=1.4.1-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
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