How To Install Wine 9 on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04 [Guide]

What are the steps to install Wine 9 on Ubuntu?. For those new to Wine, it is an open source software created to enable Linux users run Microsoft Windows applications. Wine 9 is the latest stable release of Wine available for installation and it contains a large number of improvements which includes but not limited to:

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WoW64: All transitions from Windows to Unix code go through the NT syscall interface
Mono / .NET: The Mono engine is updated to version 8.1.0.
Development tools: The WineDump tool supports printing the contents of Windows registry files (REGF format), as well as printing data for both architectures in hybrid x86/ARM64 PE files.
Cryptography and security: Smart cards are supported in the Winscard dll, using the Unix PCSClite library.
Kernel: The default Windows version for new prefixes is set to Windows 10.
IME implementation improvements
Among many other new features and improvements

Also check out: Install Windows Apps and games on Ubuntu using Bottles

Installing Wine 9 on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04

The installation of Wine on Ubuntu is a straightforward process as all packages are provides in Wine repository.

Step 1: Enable 32 bit architecture

But before installation we need to enable enable 32 bit architecture if running on a 64-bit system. This is achieved by running the command below.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Step 2: Download and add the repository key

Install wget if not present in your system.

sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install software-properties-common wget

Then download and add repository key:

sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key

You should receive “OK” in the output.

Step 3: Add the Wine repository

After importing the key, proceed to add repository.

### Ubuntu 22.04 ###
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sources
sudo mv winehq-jammy.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

### Ubuntu 20.04 ###
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/focal/winehq-focal.sources
sudo mv winehq-focal.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

### Ubuntu 18.04 ###
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/bionic/winehq-bionic.sources
sudo mv winehq-bionic.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Command execution output:

$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 https://mirror.hetzner.com/ubuntu/packages jammy InRelease
Hit:2 https://mirror.hetzner.com/ubuntu/packages jammy-updates InRelease
Hit:3 https://mirror.hetzner.com/ubuntu/packages jammy-backports InRelease
Hit:4 https://mirror.hetzner.com/ubuntu/security jammy-security InRelease
Get:5 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease [8,041 B]
Get:6 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages [85.1 kB]
Get:7 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy/main all Packages [928 B]
Get:8 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages [85.4 kB]
Fetched 179 kB in 1s (167 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done

Step 4: Install Wine on Ubuntu

With the repository ready we can install Wine on our Ubuntu Linux machine.

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Be informed that a good number of packages will be installed. This may take sometime if you have weak internet connection:

......
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libc6
1 upgraded, 295 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
Need to get 353 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,916 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

After the package has been installed, Check your version once the Wine installation is complete:

$ wine --version
wine-9.0

Step 5: Using Wine on Ubuntu

For command line guys the wine tool can be invoked directly on the terminal.

wine

Accessing help page:

wine --help

Install test application like Notepad++

VER=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4 | sed 's/v//g')
wget https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/download/v${VER}/npp.${VER}.Installer.exe

Use wine to install your downloaded .exe application.