How To Install Windows Software on Ubuntu

In some linux distributions on linux. this application so all you have to do is skip to where i talk about actually installing windows Software.
Wine is a free and open source application that aims to allow applications designed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.

Wine is a compatibility layer. It duplicates functions of Windows by providing alternative implementations of the DLLs that Windows programs call and a process to substitute for the Windows NT kernel. This method of duplication differs from other methods that might also be considered emulation, where Windows programs run in a virtual machine. In this article we are installing wine 1.7.25 version on Ubuntu 14.04.

To install it in Ubuntu you will have to add the repository to the system and just use the apt-get install command, this will also make it easy to update wine in the future by just using apt-get upgrade. The bellow command will also automatically install any extra dependencies you may need.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7

now the installation is over  you just need to install windows application which am about to show you 

Actually installing windows Software

Installing a Windows application using Wine is just as simple as installing it on the native operating system. After downloading the installation executable (in this case i chose foobar2013 - a nice media player), you can just click the executable and the installation wizard will open up, exactly like it would do on Windows.

After you're done with the installation you can run the application from the installer or from the Ubuntu button just like you would run any other Linux application.

And there is your windows application working in UBUNTU