Did you followed this instructions?: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb at http://www.winehq.org/download they tell the current unstable binary is 1.3.7, so it should be able for your lucid. If you don't want to wait for the binaries to be compiled everytime, just compile it yourself: download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/wine-1.3.7.tar.bz2/download unpack it (tar xf wine-1.3.7.tar.bz2), go into that directory (cd wine-1.3.7) and use the 3 compile steps: Code: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make -j5 sudo make install it should overwrite the copy ubuntu installed (I guess it's in /usr/local normaly) and it's compiling in 5 threads (which is optimal, if you have 4 cores). For a tutorial about how you update to the newest ubuntu-version, ask in some ubuntuforum, it shouldn't be to hard.