Wine Wine is a software layer able to simulate and to convince the software developed for Windows that are actually running on a Windows surroundings. Wine is available in the Ubuntu repositories and can install them from them, but to use the most current version requires a custom installation.

To install Wine on our first Ubuntu will open a terminal from Applications → Accessories → Terminal. In the terminal execute the following command to retrieve the key pgp Wine repository:

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Then add the Wine repository sources.list.d directory:

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

Added the repository update and install wine with the following command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine

Have installed a previous version, for example the one in the official repositories of Ubuntu 9.04 after adding the PGP key and add the Wine repositories can be updated with:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Once installed we will have a new option in the menu Applications → Wine with which we have access to Windows programs installed. We will have option to configure features through Applications → Wine → Wine Set Wine.

To run a Windows program with wine just will use a command like:

wine programa_windows

Where will you pretend programa_windows run on Ubuntu.

From Nautilus in gnome simply clicking the right mouse button and choosing Open with Wine.