wine

[Scott Howard]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Norbert de Jonge
<mail at norbertdejonge.nl> wrote:
> Is there any way you can get a more recent wine than 1.6.2 in the apt
> repository?
>
> Wine 1.6.2 was released more than 2.5 years ago, which in Wine-time is
> pretty ancient.
>
> And it's one of the packages that takes a tremendous amount of time to
> compile, especially on slower machines.
>
> That combination (very old + difficult to compile manually) is pretty
> bad.

It looks like you installed the package "wine" which is actually wine1.6.

See packages "wine-stable" or "wine-development" instead

wine-stable is version 1.8.5
http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/wine-stable

wine-development is version 1.9.20
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/yakkety/wine-development