Wine development release 6.1. Install Wine in Ubuntu 20.10 using terminal. Here is a tutorial on “how to install wine on Linux?” and “how to use wine in Ubuntu Linux?”
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 6.1 release brings:
- Arabic text shaping.
- More WinRT support in WIDL.
- VKD3D version 1.2 is used for Direct3D 12.
- Support for Rosetta’s memory layout on M1 Macs.
- Support for Thumb-2 mode on ARM.
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 5.0 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/focal main'
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
NOTE: For the line of code “sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main'” You will have to replace focal in the code with groovy for Ubuntu 20.10 and bionic for Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19.x.
For Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19.x only, libfaudio0 library is required to install from a third-party repository by running command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
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.