install steam & age of empires 2 HD on ubuntu 14.04

install_steam

# install wine 1.7
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7

# download steam
curl -o ~/Downloads/SteamSetup.exe http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/SteamSetup.exe

# install some tricks
winetricks vcrun2010
winetricks d3dx9_43
winetricks xact

# install steam
wine ~/Downloads/SteamSetup.exe -no-dwrite

# run steam with -no-dwrite so it will show fonts
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/Steam.exe -no-dwrite

# !!!!!!!!!!! INSTALL AGE OF EMPIRES VIA STEAM HERE !!!!!!!!!!!1
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/steamapps/common/Age2HD/

# backup the old launcher
mv Launcher.exe Launcher.bak

# move age of empires exe there instead
mv AoK\ HD.exe Launcher.exe

# rename _CommonRedist to stop installation of directx / vcrun on startup
mv _CommonRedist _CommonRedistOld

# PLAY!

When I try 'winetricks', it says
wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string, error message
What am I doing wrong?

Thank you @vespakoen!

does this work on all ubuntu's?

It Worked for me, on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Can you update this? ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa is deprecated

Package wine1.7 is a virtual package provided by:
winehq-staging 2.21.0xenial
winehq-stable 3.0.0xenial
winehq-devel 3.0rc6xenial
You should explicitly select one to install.

Thanks

sudo apt-get install wine1.7
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package wine1.7 is a virtual package provided by:
winehq-staging 2.21.0xenial
winehq-stable 3.0.0xenial
winehq-devel 3.5.0~xenial
You should explicitly select one to install.

E: Package 'wine1.7' has no installation candidate

This is step I am stuck on... Any advice is welcome, ill post results with my hit and misses

Update:

FAIL

I have a hunch I am going to need to install DLL or other components from the wine menu

After installing Steam, I received the message that the content servers were unavailable. To adjust I edited the file drive_c / Program Files / Steam / config / config.vdf and I added, just after the "cip" and "CM" directives (everything in the same line):
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you also need to install cabextract to make this run successfully if you're using arch or manjaro 😄