Ubuntu – which Wine version am I using

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I'm wondering which version of Wine I'm using. Because if I type apt show wine on terminal:

Package: wine
Version: 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu14
Priority: extra
Section: universe/otherosfs
Source: wine1.6
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Scott Ritchie <scottritchie@ubuntu.com>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 6,144 B
Depends: wine1.6
Homepage: http://www.winehq.org/
Download-Size: 974 B
APT-Sources: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
Description: Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (meta-package)
 Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux.
 Applications are run at full speed without the need of cpu emulation. Wine
 does not require Microsoft Windows, however it can use native system dll
 files in place of its own if they are available.
 .
 This meta-package always depends on the default version of Wine.

but if I type wine --version :

wine-1.9.22

why is there not only one version?

Best Answer

You are using 1.9.22, probably because you have the PPA for it. The command 'wine --version' always shows the version you are using.

The other version you are seeing, the 1.6.2 is for the package 'wine' but the 1.9.x package is named wine-staging.

For more information you can also see the following link:

How to install and configure Wine?

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From the WineHQ - About Wine page:

Wine began in 1993 under the initial coordination of Bob Amstadt as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Very early on, leadership over Wine's development passed to Alexandre Julliard, who has managed the project ever since. Over the years, as the Windows API and applications have evolved to take advantage of new hardware and software, Wine has adapted to support new features, all while being ported to other OSes, becoming more stable, and providing a better user-experience.

From that it sounds like there really is no specific version of Windows that WINE is based off of.

However, if you run wine regedit and then navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft > Windows NT:

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and select the CurrentVersion key:

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you'll see a registry string titled ProductName.

In my case, running Wine 1.6.2, the value for ProductName is Windows XP. Then, looking at the CSDVersion string's value, you'll notice that it says Service Pack 3.

Thus, your safest bet would most likely be that Wine is most similar to Windows XP (Service Pack 3).

EDIT

I've discovered something else in WINE. If you install winetricks and then open it up, then click on Select the default wineprefix:

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Then click Run winecfg:

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You can change the version of Windows that WINE, I guess, emulates? You can change the displayed Windows version at the very least:

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Ubuntu – Installing Wine on Ubuntu 15.10

Wine is available for Ubuntu 15.10 (also called wily).

To download simply open your terminal and type the following.
```
sudo apt-get install wine
```

and wine will be installed on your system. The above command will itself download all the dependencies required.

Winetricks comes with the wine package; installing wine will install it too.

Points to be noted

Using sudo apt-get install wine will install the stable version of wine, which I think is wine-1.6.2
Now, if you still want wine 1.7, which is unstable, then you will have to add the wine PPA. The information on how to do so can be found in installing wine 1.7
If you try to run sudo apt-get install wine1.7 without adding the PPA, you will see some errors.
After adding the PPA, you will be able to run sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks too (most probably).

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