What are the steps to install Wine on Linux?
The steps to install Wine are as follows:
- Open the terminal and enter the following command to add the Wine software source:
- Add the i386 architecture with the command “sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386,” download the WineHQ key with “wget -O – https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -,” and add the WineHQ repository with “sudo add-apt-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main’.”
- You can replace “focal” with the codename of your Ubuntu distribution according to your actual situation.
- Update the package list, and run the following command:
- Update using apt maintenance utility
- To install Wine, execute the following command:
- Please install WineHQ Stable with recommended dependencies.
- To install the development version of Wine, you can replace winehq-stable with either winehq-devel or winehq-staging.
- After installation is complete, you can verify the success of installation by running the following command.
- Check the version of wine.
- If successfully installed, the Wine version information will be displayed.
- To install the 32-bit support library (if needed to run 32-bit Windows programs), execute the following command:
- Install the i386 version of the libwine package using the sudo apt command.
- This will install the necessary 32-bit dependencies.
- To set up Wine, run the following command:
- configure wine
- This will open the configuration window for Wine, where you can make some basic settings such as selecting the Windows version, graphics, and audio settings.
After installation is complete, you can try to run the Windows program by starting it with the following command:
wine /path/to/your/windows/program.exe
Among them, /path/to/your/windows/program.exe is the path to the Windows program you want to run.
