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If you use a lot of windows apps using wine, here’s a script which may help you getting those elusive fonts and libraries to get the apps working in wine.

“winetricks is a quick and dirty script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries sometimes needed to run programs in Wine.”

To get winetricks installed in your system, head over to the terminal and run the following command:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

That’s it! Now to use the script to install, let’s say Media Player Classic, you just need to run the following command in the terminal:

sh winetricks mpc

If want to get a list of all the stuff winetricks allows you to install, just run:

sh winetricks

A word of caution, some of the packages may not work with older versions of wine, so make sure you’re running on the latest version of wine on your PC. In Ubuntu, to get to the latest version of wine just run the following

sudo apt-get upgrade wine

Read more on winetricks here.

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