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Reasons why one needs to build from source rather than relying on repos:

1 - One needs a more up to date version of Wine

2 - One needs to apply a patch to the stock Wine release

This guide was written for Breezy, using Wine 0.9.12.

WARNING: The authors of this howto give no guarantees. This is totally YMMV.

The process for building Wine from source is as follows:

Enable the Sourceforge source repository

Enable the Sourceforge source repo. Using synaptic, add the following custom repo

deb-src http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt source/

(see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto for more details)

Install the Wine build dependencies

The purpose of this step is to install any dependencies necessary to the build process.

sudo apt-get build-dep wine

Download the Wine source

Create the directory you're going to install Wine into (wine-0.9.12), and download the source into it. You'll need at least 1.4Gig of free disk to install and build successfully. Last, cd to the directory containing the source code (wine-0.9.12~winehq1), as that's where we'll be working from.

mkdir wine-0.9.12

cd wine-0.9.12

apt-get source wine

cd wine-0.9.12~winehq1 

Apply patches, if necessary

Sometimes the reason you're building from source is because you need to patch the stock release. (eg to apply the WoW patch)

patch -p1 < wine-patch#1.patch

patch -p1 < wine-patch#2.patch

etc.

eg. Applying the WoW patch

Wine needs to be patched for WoW to work properly. Download 0.9.12 patch from http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=4031 and apply the patch to the Wine code.

patch -p1 < wow.patch.preloader.and.mmap.0.9.12

Install additional libraries

Add the recommended packages from: http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev  libarts1-dev libartsc0-dev libaudiofile-dev libesd0-dev libaudio-dev libcapi20-dev liblcms1-dev libcupsys2-dev libsane-dev freeglut3-dev libc6-dev libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgcrypt11-dev libglib1.2-dev libglib2.0-dev libgnutls11-dev libgpg-error-dev libice-dev libieee1284-3-dev libjpeg62-dev libldap2-dev libltdl3-dev libmad0-dev libmng-dev libncurses5-dev libogg-dev libopencdk8-dev libpng12-dev libqt3-mt-dev libsm-dev libtasn1-2-dev libusb-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxml2-dev libxmu-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxslt1-dev libxt-dev libxv-dev render-dev unixodbc-dev x-dev   zlib1g-dev xlibs-dev libxxf86dga-dev libxxf86vm-dev libjack0.80.0-dev libicu34-dev libungif4-dev libssl-dev

Build Wine

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

The build will take a LONG time, even with a fast machine, around an hour or so on a 2Gig CPU with 1Gig of Ram, so take a break.

Install the new Wine deb

The build process, once it's complete, will create a .deb in the parent directory. This is your new Wine package.

First remove the old Wine package

dpkg --purge wine

cd ..

sudo dpkg -i wine_0.9.12~winehq1-1_i386.deb

Clean up

Once you're satisfied that Wine is working properly, you can now clean up the files used for building Wine, as this frees up quite a bit of disk. Of course, deleting make's working files will mean that if you need to rebuild, make will have to start right from the beginning.

cd wine-0.9.12/wine-0.9.12~winehq1

make distclean