Step 3: Installing and Configuring Wine

Install Wine

http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

Wine is a program for Linux that accurately runs windows-intended programs on Linux operating systems.

Follow the instructions listed under the link explicitly.  This will ensure your version of Wine is not only always up to date, but safest.

Wine will now be ‘hidden’ in your files.  Because wine installs itself usually under “ $ /usr/local/bin/.wine/ and Ubuntu doesn’t really read files that have /. / in the file name.

If you wish to open Wine. Applications -> Wine -> Winecfg

I know I'm missing a step here.  Please comment if you remember what I forgot.

Reboot system.

Turn off Desk Effects

System->Preferences-> Appearance

Turn off the “special effects”.  This is the last tab.  Select “None”.

Reboot system.