How to Install Wine 7.14 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

2 min readJul 31, 2022

This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to install wine 7.14 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04, and Linux Mint 20.3.

What is Wine?

Wine is a recursive acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator“.The project’s goal was and is to allow users to run their Windows software on non-Windows systems, and it has been very successful in this regard.

WineHQ is made up of a number of different parts, all of which are necessary for the successful running of Windows software.

WineHQ Team released its new Development version 7.14.

What’s New in Wine 7.14?

- More progress on syscall interface for USER32

- Improved font fallbacks in DirectWrite

- Some fixes for Socket shutdowns.

- Various bug fixes.

Install Wine 7.14 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint.

Step 1: Install the Required dependencies

sudo apt install libgnutls30:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libxml2:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libsdl2–2.0–0:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libdbus-1–3:i386 libsqlite3–0:i386

Step 2: Enable the 32-bit architecture and download the repository key

sudo dpkg — add-architecture i386 && wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key && sudo mv winehq.key /usr/share/keyrings/winehq-archive.key

Step 3: Add the Official Wine repository

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d && sudo wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/$(lsb_release -cs)/winehq-$(lsb_release -cs).sources

For Linux Mint 20.X users run the below command

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/focal/winehq-focal.sources

Step 4: Install the Wine 7.14 Development version

sudo apt update && sudo apt install — install-recommends winehq-devel

Step 5: Verify the Installation

You can verify that Wine is installed by opening a terminal and entering the below command

wine
wine notepad.exe