How To Install Software With Wine
Wine 4.0 Stable Released. Wine team has announced the latest stable release 4.0.1 on May 15, 2019. Its source code is available for download from its official site. You may also use the package manager to install wine. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API and will always be free software. Approximately half of the source code is written by its volunteers, and remaining effort sponsored by commercial interests, especially CodeWeavers.This article will help you to install Wine 4.0 Stable Release on Ubuntu 18.10, 18.04 LTS & 16.04 LTS systems using the apt-get package manager. Step 1 – Setup PPAFirst of all, If you are running with 64-bit system enable 32-bit architecture.
Also, install the key which was used to sign packages of wine. Sudo dpkg -add-architecture i386wget -qO - sudo apt-key add -Use one of the following commands to enable Wine apt repository in your system based on your operating system and version. ### Ubuntu 19.04 sudo apt-add-repository 'deb disco main'### Ubuntu 18.04 sudo apt-add-repository 'deb bionic main'### Ubuntu 16.04 sudo apt-add-repository 'deb xenial main'Step 2 – Install Wine on UbuntuUse below commands to install Wine packages from the apt repository. The –install-recommends option will install all the recommended packages by winehq stable versions on your Ubuntu system. Sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install -install-recommends winehq-stableIf you face unmet dependencies error during installation, use the following commands to install winehq using aptitude. Sudo apt-get install aptitudesudo aptitude install winehq-stableStep 3 – Check Wine VersionWine installation successfully completed. Use the following command to check the version of wine installed on your system.
Wine -versionwine-4.0.1How to Use Wine (Optional)?To use wine we need to login to the GUI desktop of your Ubuntu system. After that Download a windows.exe file like on your system and open it with Wine as below screenshot or use following command.
How To Install Wine On Linux
Wine putty.exeYou can also launch by right click on the application and click Open With Wine Windows Program as shown in below screenshot.
Wine 2.10 recently released, is a piece of software that allows you to run Windows applications on several operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. It makes a Windows API calls into POSIX, hence allowing you to easily integrate Windows applications into your desktop.