By the way, "now you can just build it" refers to the standard three commands to compile source code: ./configure make sudo make install (or su -c "make install" on some distros) Note that you need to have the build-essentials package installed in your Ubuntu package manager, and the source code of many libraries that Wine needs. You can find more info on this here: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-7ed3c3163e2b932ee2030a48f9c5e553dc41817b