Installing Wine in Ubuntu 16.04

Installing Wine 3.0

Refer: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-play-world-of-warcraft-on-linux-with-wine

If you are getting black buttons, use winecfg and change default setting to Windows XP instead of Windows 7

$ winecfg
$ sudo apt install winetricks
$ winetricks, launch, and choose option install corefonts
$ wine uninstaller

Refer: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/how-to-add-wine-repository-ubuntu

You might want to install from /tmp, because your going to download a Release.key

Instructions: install-wine-on-ubuntu.txt

Older Install Wine in Ubuntu 16.04

Refer: http://linuxg.net/install-wine-1-8-on-ubuntu/

Install with the following:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.8 winetricks

Remove with
$ sudo apt-get uninstall wine1.8 winetricks

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