Ubuntu Linux, Day 23: Would You Like Some Wine With That?

“opened up my handy-dandy Ubuntu Software Center and typed Wine
in the search field, and…WTF? There are 14 matching items that
show up. Many of them are variations on ‘Microsoft Windows
Compatibility Layer’. One has ‘(meta package)’ at the end, another
has ‘(dummy package)’. They each have a little sub-title like
‘wine’, or ‘wine-gecko’, or ‘wine1.3-gecko’. Why isn’t there just a
single app clearly called ‘Wine’?

“I didn’t really have any clue which of these various software
packages is the real Wine, but the one at the top–the ‘meta
package’–had the most ratings and ranked highly at 4.5 stars, so I
decided to give that one a shot.”

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