This tutorial will be helpful to install wine 5.0 on ubuntu 18.04 /19.10 and LinuxMint
WineHQ is an opensource and capable of installing Windows applications on Linux, BSD, and macOS.
Wine team released a new stable version 5.0 and this release represents a year of development effort and over 7400 individual changes.
Changelog in Wine 5.0
- Multi-monitor support
- Vulkan 1.1 support
- Builtin modules in PE format
- XAudio2 reimplementation
How to Install Wine 5.0 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint
WineHQ can be installed in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04 and Ubuntu 19.10 via Wine apt repository
Step 1: Install dependencies
Step 2: Enable the 32-bit architecture and download the repository key
Step 3: Add the Wine repository
Users need to replace manually the <distname> with the distribution name 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
Step 4: Update the Repostitory
Step 5: Install Wine 5.0
Step 6: Test the wine
Test the wine by opening basic windows application (ie) notepad, internet explorer, etc… by using the below format
Uninstall Wine 5.0
To uninstall wine 5.0 use the below command