There are multiple ways of installing Wine on Ubuntu. You can download the package using Ubuntu's official package manager (Apt), get the package from the official WineHQ repository, or install it using app managers. Install Wine With Apt. Wine 6.0 stable was released 2 days ago as the new major release to run Windows applications in Linux, Mac OS, and BSD. Now you can install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 20.10 via th. Check installed architectures. Verify 64-bit architecture. The following command should.
The Wine team announced the new development release Wine 6.4 with new features and various bug-fixes.
Wine 6.4 added support for the DTLS protocol. Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) is a protocol designed to secure data over UDP and is used for applications such as media streaming, VOIP, and online gaming for communication.
Other changes in the release include:
- Fontset support in DirectWrite.
- Dialog for editing Access Control entries.
- Theming support for a few more common controls.
- Support for Korean Wansung encoding.
And there are various bug-fixes to Windows applications including RTG Bills 2.x, Acrobat Reader XI, Soldiers of Anarchy, The Witcher 3, and more.
How to Install Wine 6.4 in Ubuntu:
Install Wineskin
The new release package will be available in next a few days for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 20.10.
Open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, or by searching for ‘terminal’ from system application menu. When it opens, run following steps one by one.
1.) Run command to enable 32 bit architecture (if you don’t have it):
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2.) Install the repository key by running command:
3.) Add wine repository via command:
IMPORTANT: In this command, you have to replace focal with:
- focal for Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 20.x
- groovy for Ubuntu 20.10.
- bionic for Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19.x
Don’t know your system edition? Run lsb_release -a command in terminal to check out.
4.) For Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19.x only, libfaudio0 library is required to install from a third-party repository by running command:
5.) Finally install Wine 6.4 via command:
If you get unmet dependency issue, try aptitude command instead:
Uninstall wine:
Install Wine Ubuntu 20.04
You may remove the PPA by launching Software & Updates utility and navigating to Other Software tab.
Linux Wine Install
To remove wine 6.4, run command in terminal: