pete_c
Guru
just finished installing ubuntu 14.04. It has wine 1.6.2. Let us know if u do a write up
Removing Wine Completely
1 - sudo apt-get --purge remove wine --purge
2 - If you're installed wine from their official PPA:
sudo apt-get remove wine-1.7 --purge
3 - rm -rf $HOME/.wine
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm
rm $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -r $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
4 - sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
5 - sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
Most current Wine is 1.7. Here installed it on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit. Here is a copy and paste. You will see some errors with Wine 64 bit.
1 - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa -y && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine
2 - Type winetricks
3 -
4 - Select Install a windows DLL or component
5 - Install all that I have marked (and any additional you need). This covers many apps:
6 - winetricks vcrun2010
7 - winetricks xna40
8 - When troubleshooting an App, always run the app in an emulated Desktop Window. Open winecfg go to Graphics and enable Emulate a Virtual Desktop. Then set the resolution for it. This way, if the app freezes, hijacks the keyboard and/or mouse focus, at least you have a way to eliminate the app instead of having it fullscreen where you have few choices:
9 - Wine and 64 bit Ubuntu
Yes, having Ubuntu 64 Bit will also set Wine as 64 bit. This will create several problems for many Windows apps that only work on 32 Bit. To solve this you need to do the following after having succesfully installed the PPA version as I mentioned above. Immediately afer installing the PPA wine package and before opening winecfg open the terminal (Make sure you are at your home folder by typing cd ~) and type the following:
rm -fr ~/.wine
export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX="/home/USER/.wine"
winecfg
Change USER with your user account. For example in My case, that line would read export WINEPREFIX="/home/pete/.wine"
With this method you have changed the Wine architecture to 32 bit and on the moment you open Winecfg, it will configure all the Windows versions available to 32 Bit.