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What is Wine?

We'll steal a Wiki definition once again... Wine is a free software application that aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 or x86-64 architecture to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows.

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DirectX is a colection of API's created to simplify viewings related to multimedia content, like games. Even if DirectX has been designed and developed based on the operating system Windows, we can install it on Ubuntu using the virtualization software Wine. (In this tutorial we suppose that you've allready installed wine, if not, follow this tutorial first)

To install DirectX on Ubuntu first thing we need to do, is download the installer, which is an aplication with .exe extension, available for download here. Once we've downloaded the aplication the only thing we need to do is execute it with a duoble-click on the file.

Here are some screenshots of the installation process.

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Sometimes, when we are upgrading our system or when we want to download a package it occurs, that the download is too slow, in this case we should select a server close to our location. Ubuntu has a specific tool incorporated to realize this task for us, which we can find in the menu System -> Administration -> Software Origins. Where we'll see the following window...

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Incredible game... interesting... but ¿What is World of Goo?
Wikipedia:

World of Goo is a puzzle computer game with a strong emphasis on physics, for the Wii, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux by 2D Boy, an independent game developer consisting of Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, both former Electronic Arts employees.

We:

The most entertaining, amazing and addictive game you can play on ubuntu, developed by two guys that worked in EA Games before.

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Perhaps you've received a warning like this once, executing the command sudo apt-get update:

Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY ...
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

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