In this Tutorial I will show you how to install the Latest Development version of Wine 5.16 On Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 LTS and LinuxMint ...
WineHQ is an open source software developed for running Windows applications on LINUX,OS X and BSD.
The Latest Devlopment version available from Wine Team is 5.16 and released recently with fix of bugs
What's new in this version?
- Support for x86 AVX registers.
- Some ARM64 fixes for macOS.
- Still more restructuration of the console support.
- Various bug fixes.
So How to Install Wine 5.16 in Ubuntu / Linux Mint?
Winehq can be installed in Ubuntu and Linux Mint via Wine apt repository
Step 1: Install the dependencies
sudo apt-get install libgnutls30:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libxml2:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386
Step 2: Enable the 32-bit architecture and download the repository key
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
Step 3: Add the wine repository to the system
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ <distname> main'Users need to replace manually the <distname> with the distribution name focal for Ubuntu 20.04 , LinuxMint 20, bionic for LinuxMint 19.x, Ubuntu 19.x and xenial for LinuxMint 18.x,Ubuntu 18.x.
For Ubuntu 19.04 and lesser versions, users run the below command to have libfaudio0 in the repository.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backportStep 4: Update the repository
sudo apt updateStep 5: Install wine 5.16
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-develStep 6: Run wine 5.16
Open the windows application by using the below command here i am opening internet explorer
wine <program name>
wine iexplore.exe
For Un-installation use the below command
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove wine-devel wine-devel-amd64
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