Upgrading Wine for Ubuntu Linux

Upgrading Wine for Ubuntu Linux

12 Oct 2017, 12:00am TZ +00:00
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Upgrading from older 1.8 Version of Wine to Latest 2.0.x Versions in Ubuntu 17.04, 16.10, 16.04.3 for the new GNOME front.

Also fixing the older DASH based shortcuts.

Installing #

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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 update
sudo apt install --install-recommends -y winehq-stable
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt autoremove

Check for the latest version:

wine --version

Should be wine-2.0...., at the time of writing this it was wine-2.0.2.

Edit the Older DASH entries of Ubuntu #

The dash entries are located in ~/.local/share/applications/wine directory.

More specifically : ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/<Installed Software>

In this case we are looking at Diptrace so

~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/DipTrace

is the directory we need to find the files to edit.

This directory may contain files like:

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User@Device:~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/DipTrace$ ls -1
Component Editor.desktop
DipTrace Launcher.desktop
Pattern Editor.desktop
PCB Layout.desktop
Schematic.desktop
Tutorial.desktop
Uninstall DipTrace.desktop

We would take the example of Schematic.desktop file.

This might look something like (User might get replaced by your username).

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Schematic
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/User/.wine" wine-stable C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/User/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start\\ Menu/Programs/DipTrace/Schematic.lnk
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/home/User/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files (x86)/DipTrace
Icon=20D5_Schematic.0

This is the older way of calling up the program to run.

However in the latest version the command is only wine not wine-stable.

Thus we edit the file Schematic.desktop to:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Schematic
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/User/.wine" wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/User/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start\\ Menu/Programs/DipTrace/Schematic.lnk
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/home/User/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files (x86)/DipTrace
Icon=20D5_Schematic.0

Change in the third line of the above ensures that we have the command.