install Wine 1.5.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Linux Mint

Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.
Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.

What's new in this release:

• Improved naming scheme for audio devices.
• Better support for finding system fonts on Mac OS X.
• Beginnings of support for JPEG encoding.
• Several printing fixes.
• Improvements to the URL cache.
• Various bug fixes.

Install Wine on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Alt+F2 and type: gnome-terminal -or- Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.5

Here you can download source of Wine 1.5.2 for other Distro's from Source Forge.
Enjoy