How to install Wine 4.7 on Linux Ubuntu and Linux Mint Systems. Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD.
Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
Wine development release 4.7 brings the following changes:
- Support for builtin libraries in PE format even on Unix.
- Updated version of the Mono engine.
- More implementation of the Debug Engine DLL.
- Support for the Command Link standard control.
- Improved Edit control sizing in CJK locales.
- Various bug fixes.
Install Wine 4.7
On Ubuntu 19.04 and Derivatives Systems:
sudo apt-get update
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ disco main'
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Derivatives Systems:
sudo apt-get update
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
On Ubuntu 18.10 LTS and Derivatives Systems:
sudo apt-get update
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ cosmic main'
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
Replace the command line “sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'” trusty for Ubuntu 14.04, xenial for Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18.x and cosmic for Ubuntu 18.10 Systems.
Once installed, please restart the system to apply changes.