Yessir, it took me 2-3 tries to get virtualbox to load and run, and you had to do it specifically step by step for it to work. I remember cussing at that one more than once.
Might be time to move to Linux Mint 18 Sarah? Whole lots of improvements over Maya.
I ran the wine installer from terminal. sudo apt-get install wine but it gave me the 1.6.2 which is the newest for linux mint 18.
Running these commands one at a time gave me wine 1.8 which is the newest that is stable with ubuntu:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.8
$ sudo apt-get install winetricks
It also installed winetricks which is helpful for shoehorning things into wine but not needed for QL to run.