The version of Wine provided by default in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has a curious issue. No sound output. Now I’m not exactly sure why this is but this is an issue I’ve found before using Karmic. To resolve this issue I simply added the PPA for winepulse (https://launchpad.net/~neil-aldur/+archive/ppa) which has a patched version of Wine that uses Pulseaudio. You may know that a few versions ago Ubuntu switched from ALSA to Pulseaudio so it could be this change that causes the problems. Anyway add the PPA and simply do an upgrade and Wine will be replaced with Winepulse.

Advantage? Sound works and, as it’s using Pulseaudio, audio mixing works.

Lucid Lynx comes with version 10.0.45 which has some problems with compiz. The problems are buttons not working and unable to right-click to enable or disable hardware acceleration. To solve this issue I upgraded flash to 10.1 beta 3

You first need to make sure you’ve installed flash from the Ubuntu repositories as this sets up all the correct symlinks. To do this from command line:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Now download flash 10.1 beta 3 from Adobe and unpack it:

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_1_p3_linux_022310.tar.gz
tar -xvf flashplayer10_1_p3_linux_022310.tar.gz

Backup the old libflashplayer.so:

sudo mv /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so.old

Then replace with the newly downloaded one:

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/

Now relaunch your browser and do about:plugins. You should see it displayed like this:

Enjoy your new flash plugin!