Ubuntu 12.04 users: read this first

Ubuntu 12.04 has multiple issues that affect Wine. 

Before asking for help here, please read the following bug reports to see if your issue has already been reported, and to find out any known workarounds.

https://launchpad.net/bugs/978678 tracked here as http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30410

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46976 tracked here as http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30057 (reported fixed upstream)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/965371 tracked here as http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30598 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.4/+bug/944321

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30557

In addition, it appears that Ubuntu wine1.5 packages for 12.04 are only available with the winepulse driver. The winepulse driver is not supported here.  If you are using this package, ask for help with any sound-related problems on the Ubuntu forum.