Install WineHQ 3.0/2.9/2.8 Using Official Repository in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Install Wine 2.9/2.8 in Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.10 Yakkety/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17

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. Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.

Changes:

• Support for tesselation shaders in Direct3D.
• Binary mode support in WebServices.
• Clipboard changes detected through Xfixes.
• User interface improvements in RegEdit.
• Direct3D command stream runs asynchronously.
• Better serial and parallel ports autodetection.
• Still more fixes for high DPI settings.
• TCP and UDP connection support in WebServices.
• Various shader improvements for Direct3D 11.
• Improved support for high DPI settings.
• Partial reimplementation of the GLU library.
• Support for recent versions of OSMesa.
• Various bug fixes.

Install Winehq 2.9/2.8 via Official Repository in Ubuntu 17.10 Zesty/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'
wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key;sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine-staging winehq-staging winetricks

That's it