How To Install Wine 1.7.42 On Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 And Derivative Systems

The latest version available is Wine 1.7.42, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:

• Support for dynamic timezone information.
• Initial desktop shell window support.
• Some more Direct2D support.
• Various bug fixes.

To install wine all you have to do is 

1. add the ppa to your system, 
2. update the local repository index and 
3. install the wine1.7 and winetricks packages.

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

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks


Optional, to remove Wine 1.7.42 and winetricks, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove wine1.7 winetricks

Also visit: installing wine in Kali Linux

How to use WINE in Kali linux

What’s Wine?

Initially, the name Wine was an acronym for WINdows Emulator. But now, Wine Is Not an Emulator: it is a compatibility layer, an interface that allows to run Windows binaries on a host system. To do this, Wine implements the Windows application binary interface in the user space, rather than as a kernel module. A daemon known as wineserver provides the services normally provided by Windows kernel.

The security in Wine is good enough, because applications running in Wine are confined to the current user’s privileges. For this, is a good choice to not run Wine with the superuser‘s account, because of its unlimited privileges! However, it is too difficult that a virus written for Windows damages our system.