How To Install Wine on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

Welcome to today guide on how to Install Wine on Ubuntu Linux Mint. Wine 9 was recently released with plenty of new features, bug fixes, and improvements. If you have a Windows application that you must run on Linux without alternative, then Wine is the first software you’ll want to try.

Follow steps below to Install Wine 9 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

Enable 32 bit architecture

If you’re running a 64-bit system, enable support for 32-bit applications.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 

Download repository key

Install wget if not present in your system.

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install 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

Add the Wine repository

After importing the key, proceed to add repository.

### Ubuntu 22.04  / Linux Mint 21 ###
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 / Linux Mint 20 ###
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 / Linux Mint 19 ###
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/bionic/winehq-bionic.sources
sudo mv winehq-bionic.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Install Wine Ubuntu or Linux Mint

Now update your APT index and install wine.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

You can verify the installed version of Wine using:

$ wine --version
wine-9.0

That’s all. You now have Wine installed on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

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• How to Install Wine on Ubuntu
• How to Install Wine on Linux Mint