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
sudo apt-get install libgnutls30:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libxml2:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386
Step 2: Enable the 32-bit architecture and download the repository key
sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386 && wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key && sudo apt-key add winehq.key
Step 3: Add the Wine repository
sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ <distname> main’
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
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
Step 4: Update the Repostitory
sudo apt update
Step 5: Install Wine 5.0
sudo apt install –install-recommends winehq-stable
Step 6: Test the wine
Test the wine by opening basic windows application (ie) notepad, internet explorer, etc… by using the below format
wine notepad.exe
Uninstall Wine 5.0
To uninstall wine 5.0 use the below command
sudo apt-get remove –autoremove wine-stable wine-stable-amd64
