Wine for Linux Install wine Ubuntu

Wine was created by and for Linux users, to make their favorite Windows programs run on their Linux computers. Wine does not require Microsoft's Windows license or install any Windows components or patches. Wine can be used for free, even for commercial use.The best way to get Wine is to download and install the latest release of wine. In this article we are installing Wine on Ubuntu 22.4 Linux  system

How to Install Wine On Ubuntu:

First Of all we have to check machine version. There are two different varient of Wine available for 32-bit and 64-bit machine. Open Terminal using Win+T and Paste the command.

lscpu

You can install Wine on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu by running the following command in the Terminal as a root user:

sudo apt-get install wine64

If your machine is 32 bit,then use 32 instead of 64. It will install wine from a standard ubuntu repository.

Install Wine 7.0 on Linux using Terminal:

If your system is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture. Run this command on terminal.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Now your linux is ready for installing latest version of wine. For that,install the repository key on linux. Simply run

wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

After successfully adding it, press Enter then run the command below to add this repository.

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ impish main'

It will automatically update apt so that you can install wine with a command.Now it's time to install the latest wine.For that run this command.

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

It will download and install the latest stable release of wine for you. After completing installation check wine using this command.

wine --version

Run windows EXE files using the following command below. For example , We are going to run rufuse-3.17.exe file on wine. For that open the directory where the EXE file located and open up terminal.As the file contain dot(.) in it's name, so we have to use quotations and run it.

wine  "rufuse-3.17.exe"

How to install Wine on Fedora?

To install wine on fedora , you have to follow the following steps:

Download the RPM file from the official website of WineHQ. After downloading it, you need to install the rpm file using dnf command or yum command depending on your Linux distribution. You can visit their official site for documentation.