How to Install Wine 2.0.1 Stable on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10, 17.04

   Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

Wine 2.0.1 changelog:

• DirectDraw games (Jojo's Fashion Show 2: Las Cruces demo, The Chosen: Well of Souls) try to lock surface with invalid dwSize
• Black & White: DXTC to ARGB converter not implemented
• Open dialog crashes if the desktop folder is at a Unicode path that cannot be represented in the current locale
• Need For Speed Most Wanted crashes after accepting video settings changes
• Venom Codename: Outbreak - initial menu screen is black (no menu items)
• MessageBox does not display last word if string contains '&' (ampersand)
• iMesh 10 crashes at startup (needs wmvcore.dll.WMCreateReaderPriv)
• Wine Notepad command line parser eats the first 2 letters when the path starts with / (it should only do this for valid command line options)
• Property sheet fails to display Page Title
• Graphical Glitches in Agarest Generations of War
• Multiple games and applications need msvcr120.dll._except1 (Audacity 2.1.0, Tera Online)
• New Marvel Heroes 2015 Launcher crashes on unimplemented function dhcpcsvc.dll.DhcpRequestParams
• MIDI Clock Messages are Corrupted Between Wine and ALSA
• Nanocad 5.: file open/import dialog does not open
• ComicRack 0.9.x (.NET 4.5 app) hangs/crashes on startup when executing WMI query
• UE4 games (Ether One Redux, Into the Stars) crash while loading with "BackBuffer->GetResource() has 3 refs, expected 1" error
• improper escaping of quotes in command line
• Civilization II Unhandled page fault on read access
• Rush for Berlin Gold crashes after the intro videos
• Odallus The Dark Call crashes while starting if a force feedback enabled controller is plugged in
• AmiBroker 6.00 fails, when run, with raise_exception Unhandled exception
• Unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll._except1 (Starcraft 2 main menu, Firefox)
• Updating group box text causes garbage
• Zafehouse demo crashes with Call from 0x7b43c14c to unimplemented function ddraw.dll.GetSurfaceFromDC, aborting
• SC2 unimplemented function ucrtbase.dll._except1
• The Magic School Bus Explores The Solar System needs msvideo.dll16.DRAWDIBPROFILEDISPLAY
• The Magic School Bus Explores The Solar System crashes on launch; appears to be missing some files
• Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara needs d3dx11_43.dll.D3DX11CreateShaderResourceViewFromMemory
• Git for Windows 2.7.0 needs unimplemented function rstrtmgr.dll.RmShutdown
• winamp needs unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoStopTimer
• Steam -> RPGMaker 2003 needs unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.BaseFlushAppcompatCache
• Sega Bug crashes immediately
• WOLF RPG Editor: Division by zero when winegstreamer is enabled
• mshtml/tests/dom crashes in xul while running test_doc_elem
• QQ 2013 needs ntoskrnl.exe.IoCreateFile
• QQ 2013 needs ntoskrnl.exe.KeClearEvent
• Warpath 21st Century does not have sound
• Magic: The Gathering Online 4.0 crashes when entering the battle
• One Note Free Retail installer crashes in xmllite
• Piriform Speccy 1.3 needs setupapi.dll.CM_Get_Child_Ex
• DX Library: PlaySoundFile() doesn't play MP3 files with specific extra headers
• Unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.fesetenv
• KiriKiri Z based games: main screen doesn't update.
• GetOpenFileName should expand environment variables in lpstrInitialDir
• Build for Ubuntu Precise fails because MPG123_IGNORE_INFOFRAME is undeclared
• NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M detected as GeForce GTX 470
• Acid Pro Trial 7.0e  fails to install

Installation instructions:
 
Open terminal and insert command line...

$ wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key $ sudo apt-key add Release.key $ sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/' $ sudo apt-get update $sudo apt-get install winehq-stable

 Check version wine:

$ wine --version