While testing some crappy windows software with Wine, i realized the version included in Backtrack 4 (Wine 1.0.1) is not working for me. Thanks to the new Backtrack 4 Debian core (Ubuntu 8.10 / intrepid), this can be fixed easily. In case you've been living under a rock - Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.

What i wanted was a more recent Wine version for my Backtrack installation. Winehq lists Wine 1.1.28 as latest development release. For some reason, the official winehq repositories are offline. But luckily, the Wine Ubuntu Team provides a separate repository for intrepid.

Warning:The packages here are beta packages. This means they will periodically suffer from regressions, and as a result an update may break functionality in Wine. If the latest stable release of Wine (currently Wine 1.0.1) works for you, then you may not want to use these beta packages.

Installation

1.) Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

2.) Add the following key to your keyring (verify!):
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F9CB8DB0

3.) Update your package cache
# sudo apt-get update

4.) Install Wine packages
# sudo apt-get install wine

Have fun!