Wine released its new development version 6.1.
As you know Wine is an application used to run windows applications on Non-Windows Operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS.
This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to install wine 6.1 in Ubuntu 20.10, Ubuntu 20.04, Fedora 33, and Linux Mint 20.1.
Wine 6.1 Changelog
- Support for Thumb-2 mode on ARM
- Support for Rosetta’s memory layout on M1 Macs.
- Arabic text shaping
- More WinRT Support in WIDL
- VKD3D version 1.2 is used for Direct3D 12
- Various bug fixes
How to Install Wine 6.1 Development in Ubuntu / Linux Mint?
Step 1: Install the 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 to system
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 focal for Ubuntu 20.04 ,LinuxMint 20.1, 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 repository
sudo apt update
Step 5: Install wine 6.1
sudo apt install –install-recommends winehq-devel
Step 6: Verify the wine installation
Test the wine by opening basic windows application (ie) notepad, internet explorer, etc… by using the below format
wine notepad.exe
How to Install Wine 6.1 Development in Fedora 33 / Fedora 32?
Step 1: Add the official repository to your system
For Fedora 33 add the below repo
dnf config-manager –add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/33/winehq.repo
For Fedora 32 add the below repo
dnf config-manager –add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/32/winehq.repo
Step 2: Install Wine 6.1 in Fedora
As this is a development version, use the below command to install it
dnf install winehq-devel
