Need help with Wine

**Orryan850** · October 5th, 2012

I'm new to the Ubuntu(Linux) family. I am trying to run Wine but I can't get any of my programs to work. If anyone can help me learn how to run programs and configure wine in general it would be a great help. And I'd like to say thanks ahead of time for the help.

**grahammechanical** · October 5th, 2012

There is a section of this forum dedicated to Wine.

But the forum is being re-designed. So, do not check the wine section during 8th and 9th October.

And there is wine documentation here:

http://www.winehq.org/help/

We can not give specific help unless you give specific problems.

Regards.

**idoitprone** · October 5th, 2012

http://appdb.winehq.org/

check the wine database

or you uneed to install the lastest wine

use a ppa

Code:

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

**Wim Sturkenboom** · October 5th, 2012

If you have to run a lot of windows applications for whatever reason, you're better of installing windows

**Mark Phelps** · October 5th, 2012

Originally Posted by Orryan850

I'm new to the Ubuntu(Linux) family. I am trying to run Wine but I can't get any of my programs to work...

BEFORE you try to install and run ANY MS Windows program, you can save yourself a lot of grief and effort if you use the WineHQ link already provided to see how well that Windows app and version works in Wine.

Anything you need to depend upon for daily use needs to have a rating of Gold or better to be useful. If there is no rating or if the rating is Garbage, then trying to use that app in Linux is a complete waste of your time.