Wine 1.7.1 available for Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

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.

Changes in this release:

• Support for keyed event objects.
• Support for the "init once" synchronization mechanism.
• Activation context support for DLLs, typelibs, and COM classes.
• Support for loading 32-bit typelibs on 64-bit.
• Various Mac driver fixes.
• Some fixes for serial port devices.
• Support for vertical text in the Postscript driver.
• Version 2 of liblcms used now instead of version 1.
• Unicode data updated to Unicode 6.2.0.
• Hyperlink controls supported in installers.
• Improved support for XML attributes.
• Various bug fixes.

Install Winehq 1.7.1 via PPA in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.6 winetricks

Install Winehq 1.7.1 from source in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/13.10/Linux Mint 15 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:

sudo apt-get install flex bison qt4-qmake

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.1.tar.bz2

tar -xjvf wine-1.7.*

cd wine-1.7.*

>> For 32bit: Terminal Commands:

./configure

cd tools; ./wineinstall

>> For 64bit: Terminal Commands:

./configure --enable-win64

cd tools; ./wineinstall

Install Wine 1.7.1 from source in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10/Linux Mint 14/13/12/Debian open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:

sudo apt-get install flex bison qt3-dev-tools qt4-qmake

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.1.tar.bz2

tar -xjvf wine-1.7.*

cd wine-1.7.*

>> For 32bit: Terminal Commands:

./configure

cd tools; ./wineinstall

>> For 64bit: Terminal Commands:

./configure --enable-win64

cd tools; ./wineinstall

You can download source of Wine 1.7.1 for other Distributions from Source Forge.
Wine stable versions available: Wine 1.6, Wine 1.5 (PPA, Source) and Wine 1.4
That's it