While shifting from Windows to Linux OS, the major issue that most of the users face is the inability to run Windows applications and games. Installing Windows OS alongside Linux or installing a separate virtual machine is not an appropriate solution and also it takes extra resources.

Fortunately, Linux OS allows you to install your favorite Windows applications and games using the Wine program. Wine is a computability layer that enables you to install and run Windows programs on Linux systems. Initially, Wine does not support much of Windows applications, but now it supports a large number of Windows applications. Wine is not only supported on Linux but also macOS and FreeBSD.

How to Install Wine 6.4 in Ubuntu: The new release package will be available in next a few days for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 20.10. Open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, or by searching for ‘terminal’ from system application menu. When it opens, run following steps one by one. The Wine maintenance release 5.0.5 is now available. What's new in this release:. Fixes build failure when v4l is missing; The source is available now.Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. The above is the Winehq way to install wine on mac but that makes it cumbersome to use considering you must launch the Wine Stable, Wine Devel or Wine Staging app each time to get access to wine within Terminal. The default WINEPREFIX will be /.wine so anything you install will be placed into the hidden /.wine folder. This will install four different packages. Wine is obviously the main one, but the rest are also recommended. Winetricks is used to automatically install dependencies that certain Windows programs may rely on, wine-mono is for applications that rely on.NET, and wine-gecko is for applications that rely on Internet Explorer.

In this article, we will explain how to install Wine on Linux Mint OS using two different ways. We will describe the installation of Wine using the command line Terminal application.

Note:

1. We have explained the procedure and commands on Linux Mint 20 OS. More or less the same procedure can be followed in older Mint versions.
2. For installing or removing any package in any Linux distribution including Linux Mint, you must be root user or normal user with sudo privileges.

Wine Installation on Linux Mint from Default Mint Repositories

Wine package is available in the default Mint repositories. Therefore, we can easily install it using the apt package manager. Follow the below steps to install Wine using default repositories in Mint OS:

Step 1: Wine is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Before the installation of Wine, you will need to check if you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit Mint system. Follow the below steps to do so:

Open the command-line Terminal using the Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut and then issue the following command in it:

You will see a similar output:

By looking at the CPU op-mode(s) value, you can find out the flavor of the Mint system. The 32-bit value indicates that you are running a 32-bit system, while the 32-bit, the 64-bit value indicates that you are running a 64-bit OS.

Step 2: To install Wine on a 64-bit Mint system, issue the following command in Terminal:

After running the above command, the system might ask for confirmation that if you want to continue the installation or not. Press y to continue, after that, Wine will be installed on your system.

To install Wine on a 32-bit Mint system, issue the following command in Terminal:

Once the installation of Wine is completed, you can verify it using the following command in Terminal:

With the above command, you can also check the installed version of Wine.

Wine Installation on Linux Mint using from the WineHQ Repository

You can also install Wine from the Wine HQ repository. Follow the below steps in order to do so:

Step 1: First, you will need to enable 32-bit architecture support. Issue the following command in Terminal in order to do so:

When prompted for the password, enter the sudo password.

Step 2: Now you will need to import the Wine HQ signing key. Issue the following command in the Terminal to do so:

The “OK” in the above output indicates that the key has been imported successfully.

Step 3: Add Wine repository using the following command in Terminal:

Step 4: Now update the system repository index using the following command:

After running this command, you might receive the following error:

“The following signatures couldn’t be verified

because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F”

You can solve this error by adding another key for the WineHQ repository. Issue the following command in the Terminal to do so:

Now again run the update command as follows:

This time hopefully you will not receive any error.

Step 5: Now install Wine stable release using the following command in the Terminal:

After running the above command, the system might ask for confirmation that if you want to continue the installation or not. Press y to continue, after that, Wine will be installed on your system.

Install Wine On Mac

There is another more recent version of Wine available is known as “WineHQ Development” but it is not a much stable version of Wine. However, as a developer, if you want to install this package, you can install it as follows:

Step 6: Once the installation of Wine is completed, you can verify it using the following command in Terminal:

With the above command, you can also check the installed version of Wine.

Wine Configuration

After the Wine is installed, set up the Wine environment. To do so, issue the following command in Terminal:

After running the above command, you will be prompted to install wine-mono and Gecko packages. These packages are required for certain applications and components to work properly.

Install Wine Ubuntu

Install Wine On Linux Mint

First, you will be prompted for installing the wine-mono package. Click the Install button to install it.

Install Wine Mono

After the installation of the wine-mono package is completed, you will be prompted to install Gecko. Click the Install button to install it.

Once Gecko is installed, the Wine configuration window will appear which allows you to configure various settings. After configuring required settings, close the configuration window. Now you have Wine installed and configured on your system.

Install Winetricks

Uninstall Wine

If you want to uninstall Wine from your system; you can do so with the following command in Terminal:

That is all there is to it! Now that you have learned how to install Wine on Linux Mint 20 system, you can easily install and run your favorite Windows applications and games on Linux system. I hope you liked the article!