How to install Wine 4.4 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 4.4
The Wine development release 4.4 brings new MSIDB tool for manipulating MSI databases and support for custom draw buttons in common controls. It also features many more Media Foundation APIs implemented and various bug fixes.
Install Wine 4.4
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.