How To Install Wine 5.0 on LinuxMint

Wine 5.0 Stable Released. Wine team has announced the latest stable release 5.0. Its source code, as well as the Debian packages for Linux Mint is available on 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 5.0 Stable Release on LinuxMint systems using the PPA.

Step 1 – Prerequisites

First of all, If you are running with a 64-bit system enable 32-bit architecture. Also, install the key which was used to sign packages of wine.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

Use one of the following commands to enable the Wine apt repository in your system based on your operating system and version.

### Linuxmint 20.x 
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main'

### Linuxmint 19.x 
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'

### Linuxmint 18.x 
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'

Step 2 – Install Wine on Linuxmint

Use below commands to install Wine packages from the apt repository. The –install-recommends option will install all the recommended packages by winehq-stable on your system.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Step 3 – Check Wine Version

Wine installation successfully completed. Use the following command to check the version of wine installed on your system

wine --version

wine-5.0

How 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 PuTTY on your system and open it with Wine as below screenshot or use following command.

wine putty.exe

You can also launch by right click on the application and click Open With Wine Windows Program.

Conclusion

This tutorial explained you to how to install Wine 5.0 on Linuxmint system.