To install older versions, you have to download it from another source. What most people forget is from the WineHQ PPA, the older versions are removed from the repository.

Try this steps out:

sudo apt-get install flex bison qt3-dev-tools qt4-qmake

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.8.tar.bz2

tar-xjvf wine-1.7. *

cd wine-1.7. *



32bit architecture perform the following command:



    . / Configure

    cd tools;. / wineinstall 



>> 64bit architecture perform the following command:



    . / Configure - enable-win64

    cd tools;. / wineinstall