Wine is a compatibility layer to run windows applications/softwares on
Linux based OS like Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx)/9.10/10.10.The most
important fact is that the applications doesn’t required CPU emulation
and run at full speed.The Wine can be installed in Ubuntu 10.04 by using
command line or Synaptic Package Manager.Wine package contains a
program loader which is used to run windows executables(*.exe).