Install Wine 7.3 on Ubuntu 21.10 / 20.04 & Linux Mint

Winehq Team released its new Development version 7.3

This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to install wine 7.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.10, and Linux Mint 20.3.

Wine 7.3 Changelog

- Proper support for API sets.

- A number of HID joystick fixes

- More large scale cleanups to support ‘long’ type

- Progress on the PE conversion of USER32 and WineALSA

- Various bug fixes

For the complete changelog refer to the announcement page

Install Wine 7.3 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 apt-key add winehq.key

Step 3: Add Wine repository to the system

sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ ‘$(lsb_release -cs)’ main’

Step 4: Install Wine 7.3 Development version

sudo apt install — install-recommends winehq-devel

Step 5: Verify the Wine installation

Test the wine application by opening any windows application (ie) notepad, internet explorer, etc… by using the below format

wine notepad.exe

Uninstall Wine 7.3

For uninstallation run the below command in the terminal

sudo apt remove — auto-remove winehq-devel

Conclusion

From this tutorial, you have learned how to download and install wine 7.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.10, and LinuxMint 20.3.

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