Wine 2.15 Released with AES Encryption Support

Wine running Windows apps on Linux

The Wine development release has reached version 2.15 earlier today.

Wine 2.15 added support for AES encryption, improved Bezier support in Direct2D, improved chunked transfer in WinInet, and fixed bugs for running Illustrator CS6, emClient, Bricscad, Joystick, Microsoft Outlook 2010, XM6 TypeG, Peavey Revalver IV, FUJITSU Software ATLAS,and Magic Online.

How to Install Wine 2.15 in Ubuntu:

The official Wine repository offers the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, and their derivatives.

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for it from app launcher, when it opens, run command:

sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/

Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.

winehq-repo

For Linux Mint 18.x, use following command instead to add the wine repository:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'

2. Download and install the repository key via command:

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key; sudo apt-key add Release.key

wine-repos-key

3. Finally install Wine development release via command:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

See HERE for more about how to install wine in Ubuntu.

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ml is a part time stay-at-home dad who've been using Ubuntu Desktop for a few years. He writes in the free time and wishes to share some useful tips with Ubuntu beginners and lovers.

One comment

  1. francoisduvalcork

    hi there

    [quote]$ sudo apt-get install –install-recommends winehq-devel
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    winehq-devel : Depends: wine-devel (= 2.15.0~xenial)
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
    [/quote]

    that’s what I get aafter following your tutorial what could I do from here ?