How to Install Wine 1.5.15 in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10/Linux Mint

Install Wine 1.5.15 in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10/11.04/Linux Mint

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 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:

• Full support for layered windows.
• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 16.
• Support for broadcast sockets used by networked games.
• Downloaded add-ons installers are now cached.
• Support for persistent Internet cookies.
• String optimizations in JavaScript.
• Various bug fixes.

Install Wine in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

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

• How to Use

sudo wine vlc.exe