How To Install/Remove Wine 1.7.2 On Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04 & LinuxMint

Wine is a open source software used to run windows applications in Linux.Wine supports on Linux,Free BSD,Solaris for running windows applications.In this Tutorial I will tell you how to install wine on ubuntu / Linuxmint

Two ways to install wine in Ubuntu

Method 1

 •Install via Ubuntu software center and type wine and install it

Method 2

 •Open Terminal and type the following lines

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

#sudo apt-get update

#sudo apt-get install wine 1.7

#sudo apt-get install winetricks

Thats it wine installed..and you can open any windows program by right click and open the *.exe with wine windows program loader..........

 REMOVING WINE

For removing the wine software completely run the following command in terminal

#sudo apt-get --purge remove wine

#sudo apt-get auto remove