Wine 4.0 Stable Released. Wine team has announced the latest stable release 4.0.1 on May 15, 2019. Its source code is available for download from 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 4.0 Stable Release on Ubuntu 18.10, 18.04 LTS & 16.04 LTS systems using the apt-get package manager.
Step 1 – Setup PPA
First of all, If you are running with 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 Wine apt repository in your system based on your operating system and version.
### Ubuntu 19.04 sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ disco main' ### Ubuntu 18.04 sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main' ### Ubuntu 16.04 sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'
Step 2 – Install Wine on Ubuntu
Use below commands to install Wine packages from the apt repository. The –install-recommends option will install all the recommended packages by winehq stable versions on your Ubuntu system.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable
If you face unmet dependencies error during installation, use the following commands to install winehq using aptitude.
sudo apt-get install aptitude sudo aptitude install 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-4.0.1
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 as shown in below screenshot.
while installation I get this issue:
wine: cannot find L”C:\\windows\\system32\\putty.exe”
no matter what i do it keeps saying this:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
wine-stable : Depends: wine-stable-amd64 (= 4.0.2~disco) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wine-stable-i386 (= 4.0.2~disco)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I use ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
You may have used the wrong repository based on the line
Depends: wine-stable-i386 (= 4.0.2~disco)
I had the same problem before and I used a different repository.
Installed fine! But, I am prompted to go through the “First startup wizard” and asked to input “Console application settings” fields of “Binary” and Argument.” I have no idea what to enter in these fields – any help would be greatly appreciated! Running Ubuntu 18.04 on a fresh install.