In this article , How to Install Wine on Ubuntu 19.10/18.04/16.04 LTS or any other cloud platform like Amazon EC2, Azure VM, Google Compute Engine, etc.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Wine(Wine is not an Emulator) is free and open source used for running Windows applications on UNIX like operating system such as Linux, mac-OS, & BSD.
Prerequisites
- Ubuntu 19.10/18.04/16.04 LTS
- SSH access with sudo privileges.
Step 1: Check Ubuntu OS-version
Use the below command to check the OS version.
$ cat /etc/os-release
Optput:
NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS" VERSION_ID="18.04" HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic
Step 2: Enable 32 bit architecture
If your OS is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture :
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
Download and Import Wine public GPG repository key:
$ wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -
Optput:
OK
Step 3: Add Wine public GPG repository key for Ubuntu
Different OS-Version Wine public GPG repository key:
Ubuntu 19.10
$ sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ eoan main'
Ubuntu 16.04
$ sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'
Ubuntu 18.04
$ sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main' $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
Update the system packages.
$ sudo apt update
Step 4: Install stable Wine on Ubuntu
Install Wine on Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
Output:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: grub-pc-bin libegl-mesa0 libegl1 libgbm1 libwayland-egl1-mesa libwayland-server0 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: . . . . Setting up gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:i386 (1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1) ... Setting up libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 (1.40.14-1ubuntu0.1) ... Setting up librsvg2-2:i386 (2.40.20-2) ... Setting up librsvg2-common:i386 (2.40.20-2) ... Setting up libavcodec58:i386 (7:4.1.3-0ppa1~18.04) ... Setting up libfaudio0:i386 (20.03-bionic~1ppa1) ... Setting up wine-stable-i386:i386 (5.0.0~bionic) ... Setting up wine-stable (5.0.0~bionic) ... Setting up winehq-stable (5.0.0~bionic) ... Processing triggers for libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 (2.36.11-2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 (2.36.11-2) ...
Step 5: Check wine Version
To check the the version of Wine.
$ wine --version
Output:
wine-5.0
Uninstall Wine from Ubuntu
To uninstall or remove wine completely from ubuntu, Run below command,
$ sudo apt-get remove --autoremove wine-stable winehq-stable
Conclusion
In this article we have performed how to install Wine on Ubuntu, checked installed wine version.
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