Installing wine on 12.04

Well, I wonder if I am doing the right thing. I need to install Wine on 12.04 as its not install by default, and I had use the command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

And

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine1.5 

Was it right?

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Adding the PPA will let you install the latest wine updated before it is released in the official repository.

According to the official website wine1.5 is still in beta. So I wouldn't suggest installing it if you need something stable, so I would install wine1.4 instead. Unless you are certain the Windows application you need to run, only works on wine1.5.

So in short I would recommend the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa #This is optional since 1.4 is already available in the official repositories
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.4

But in case you are willing to install a beta package, and accept a few crashes every now and then (not saying that crashes WILL happen, but they are possible), then installing wine1.5 and reporting bugs and crashes is the way to go:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa #This is required since 1.5 is not available in the official repositories
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.4

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You can follow this link has given simple steps to install Wine 1.6.2 under Debian 7/6, Ubuntu 14.10/14.04/13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/11.10 and Linux Mint 17/16/15/14/13 systems

hope these helps you.

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