Help:Downloading and Installing UTAU on Ubuntu

Hello! The goal of this tutorial is installing UTAU 0.2.77 on a non-japanse Ubuntu 12.10 computer using Wine 1.4.1 (will likely work on other versions of Ubuntu and/or Linux, but the instructions may need to be modified to suit the different versions)

Getting the Needed Files
Get UTAU 0.2.77 from here, not 0.2.76. Only version 0.2.77 works in Wine. Also, you may want to download utau_a3_35.zip from here, if you do not read japanese. [ダウンロード means "download", the button is at the very bottom of the page]

1. Installing Wine
Wine is a software package that allows you to install some windows software in ubuntu. Fortunatly for us, you can install UTAU with wine. In Ubuntu 12.10 you have 2 options for installing Wine, via terminal or the Ubuntu Software Center.

To install via terminal, open a terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+t, then typing "sudo apt-get install playonlinux". It will ask for your user password, type that in and press enter. Next, it will list all the packages that will be installed, upgrade, or removed during installation and ask if you with to proceed. Type "y" and press enter. You will now see a list of actions being taken by the computer to install the asked for software. To instal using Software Center, click the "Dash Home" icon in the upper left corner of the screen, then type "Software Center" and click on the Ubuntu Software center icon. (Like my utau launcher? I'll show you how to make one of those too (^w^)) It will open a window with a search box to the right, type "playonlinux" in it. It will bring you one package, click on the install button at the right edge of the screen, it will ask for your password, type it in and it will install all the needed packages.

2. Getting Japanese Language Support
Click the dash icon