Links 18/11/2013: Applications and Instructionals
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2013-11-18 10:59:46 UTC
- Modified: 2013-11-18 10:59:46 UTC
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For those still having to rely upon Wine to run your favorite Windows games or other applications, the 1.6.1 stable release is now available if you're not running Wine 1.7 for all the latest goodies.
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Synaptic is a package manager that gives you the same control that you get using apt-get in a terminal window in Ubuntu 13.10. Here's how you can install it.
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