The Wine development release 1.3.33 is now available. Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.
What’s new in this release:
- Support for text output in the DIB engine.
- Improved support for HTTP proxies.
- New version of the Gecko engine.
- A number of cursor fixes.
- Some fixes in bidirectional text layout.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available now now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
To install Wine open a terminal window (press SuperKey and copy+paste the following lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3
If you already have Wine and the ppa installed Wine will be updated to the latest version when updating your system.