How to install wine in Ubuntu terminal. Learn to install and use wine in Ubuntu. 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 5.17
The Wine development release 5.17 is now available with the following new changes:
- ADVAPI32 library converted to PE.
- Beginnings of an NDIS network driver.
- Still more restructuration of the console support.
- Various bug fixes.
Bugs Fixed: Wine 5.17
Bugs fixed in 5.17 (total 17):
- Multiple applications need msvcirt.dll.??0ifstream@@QAE@PBDHH@Z (Merriam-Webster
- Dictionary, Power Tab Editor, gmax 1.2, GradeBook for Windows, Microsoft Reader)
- Multiple games need IDirectDrawMediaStream::Get/SetFormat implementation (Need for Russia, Motocross Madness 2, The Sims Complete Collection)
- Multiple programs require msvcirt.dll.??0ifstream@@QAE@XZ (Wouxun KG-UV2D, Charon, Cricket 2002, Mastercook 15, GraphCalc)
- Tic Tac Toe Game (vbscript) cannot be played (colon used in for loop for placing multiple statements on the same line)
- Deadlight: Director’s Cut (UE3, 64-bit) loads to a black screen
- GetVersion incorrectly fails to lie about the OS version when masquerading as Windows 8.1 or 10
- Chrome/Chromium sandbox needs x86-64 syscall thunks to match Windows
- Cisco Jabber 12.5 sends only first letter due to missing richedit:ITextRange functions
- Logitech webcam does not show picture, only grey
- Support conversion from GST_VIDEO_FORMAT_RGB to DirectShow-supported formats (needed by Risk II + native amstream)
- Launching World of Tanks from the shortcut doesn’t work
- OllyDbg 2.x segfaults the process after attaching to it
- Logos Bible Software Indexing fails 64bit only 32bit works provide some way to get reported windows version via command line
- Visual Studio 2019 installer crashes after unpacking content
- Emulated virtual desktop ignores size set in winecfg
- Pyxel Edit crashes when clicking the “File” dropdown option.
Install WINE
If you have previously installed a Wine package from another repository, please remove it and any packages that depend on it (e.g., wine-mono, wine-gecko, winetricks) before attempting to install the WineHQ packages, as they may cause dependency conflicts.
Run the following commands to install Wine 5.17 on Ubuntu 19.10 Systems:
sudo apt update
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
sudo apt update
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
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/ eoan main'
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
NOTE: You will have to replace eoan in the code “sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ eoan main'” with bionic for Ubuntu 18.04 and xenial for Ubuntu 16.04.
If you have previously used the distro packages, you will notice some differences in the WineHQ ones:
1. Files are installed to /opt/wine-devel, opt/wine-stable, or /opt/wine-staging (depending on which version you installed).
2. Menu items are not created for Wine’s builtin programs (winecfg, etc.), and if you are upgrading from a distro package that had added them, they will be removed. You can recreate them yourself using your menu editor.
3. Binfmt_misc registration is not added. Consult your distro’s documentation for update-binfmts if you wish to do this manually.
4. WineHQ does not at present package wine-gecko or wine-mono. When creating a new wine prefix, you will be asked if you want to download those components. For best compatibility, it is recommended to click Yes here. If the download doesn’t work for you, please follow the instructions on the Gecko and Mono wiki pages to install them manually.