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Install Wine And Run Windows Apps in Linux
All kinds of software are currently available on Linux but every now and then, there is that Windows software or Game which is not available or has no equivalent on Linux Wine makes it possible to run those Windows programs and games on your Linux desktop. So let’s look at how to install Wine on Linux and run Windows apps on Linux desktop.
How to install Wine in Linux?
Installing a package on a fresh system is remarkably straightforward. Just download the package available for your distro and install it using your system’s installation utility. Wine works on a huge amount of different Linux distributions and installing Wine should be no more difficult than installing any other software. Chances are that there is a Wine package in your software app for easy installation.
Or you can follow the steps below to install from the PPA.
Install Wine on Fedora or Derivatives
Fedora 24
dnf config-manager –add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/24/winehq.repo
Fedora 25
dnf config-manager –add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/25/winehq.repo
Fedora 26
dnf config-manager –add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/26/winehq.repo
Install one of the following packages:
Stable branch
dnf install winehq-stableDevelopment branch
dnf install winehq-develStaging branch
dnf install winehq-staging
dnf install winehq-stableDevelopment branch
dnf install winehq-develStaging branch
dnf install winehq-staging
Install Wine on Ubuntu or Derivatives
If your system is 64 bit, enable 32-bit architecture (if you haven’t already):
sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386
Add the repository:
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
On Linux Mint 17.x, change the last line to the following:
sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ trusty main’
On Linux Mint 18.x, change the last line to the following:
sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main’
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get update
Then install one of the following packages:
Stable branch
sudo apt-get install –install-recommends winehq-stableDevelopment branch
sudo apt-get install –install-recommends winehq-develStaging branch
sudo apt-get install –install-recommends winehq-staging
sudo apt-get install –install-recommends winehq-stableDevelopment branch
sudo apt-get install –install-recommends winehq-develStaging branch
sudo apt-get install –install-recommends winehq-staging
If there are missing dependencies reported by apt-get, install them and do the update and install again.