Binary package “winetricks” in ubuntu kinetic

simple tool to work around common problems in Wine

 Winetricks lets you install missing DLLs or tweak various Wine settings
 individually. It also has a menu of supported games/apps for which it
 can do all the workarounds automatically.
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 It can be used via GUI or commandline, whichever you prefer; the
 commandline mode is particularly useful as a building block in fancier
 wine frontends and in automated regression testing.