Install Wine 7.12 on Ubuntu 22.04 & Linux Mint
This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to install wine 7.12 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 7.12.
What’s New in Wine 7.12?
- Theming support for QT5 applications
- Improved effect support in Direct2D
- QWORD Support in registry tools
- Bundled vkd3d Upgraded to version 1.4
- Various Bug Fixes
Install Wine 7.12 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint?
Step 1: Install the 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 Official Wine Repository to the system
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 use the below command
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/focal/winehq-focal.sources
Step 4: Install Wine 7.12 Development version on Ubuntu
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 notepad.exe
Removing Wine 7.12
For uninstallation of wine run the below command
sudo apt remove — autoremove winehq-devel && sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq*.sources
Conclusion
From this tutorial, you have learned how to Install the wine 7.12 development version on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04, and Linux Mint 20.3.
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