Obtaining the latest WINE (2.0 for Yakkety)

Just so that new people don't rip their hair out figuring this stuff out, for some reason the ubuntu-wine PPA (ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa) hasn't released anything for Yakkety yet. In the event that repository had gone completely dead-silent, here is something else you can do instead;

If testing from live, this needs to be done first:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
# Skip to "sudo add-apt-repository ..." if following the above.
Else perform the following:
sudo rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-wine*
# Just in case you have any ubuntu-wine PPAs. sudo apt remove wine1.* sudo apt autoremove
# More "Just in case" stuff. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/unstable sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
# You may skip this if testing from live,
# though it is recommended if you can do it. sudo apt install wine2.0

There might be the issue of ttf-mscorefonts-installer not functioning completely; installation for it finishes, but whatever it does post-inst doesn't happen due to domain mismatching. I'll update whenever that package's post-inst script is updated with functional domains. Otherwise, that should be all you need to do to get the latest WINE without having to build it yourself.

The issue with ttf-macorefonts-installer can be resolved with obtaining the latest version from Debian's package archive. Pick a mirror from here and install with dpkg or gdebi. Thanks @wolfman for the info, see post #2 for source.

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Hi @tiox,

for the fonts installer problem, see answer #2 here: