How to Install Wine on Ubuntu 22.04 | veTechno

The wine’s latest stable release can be installed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS from standard and official wine repositories.

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Installing Wine On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Step1. Enable 32-bit and 64-bit architecture.
The first step is to enable multiarch, which allows you to install both 64 and 32-bit packages on the Ubuntu machine:

vikash@vetechno:~$   sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 

vikash@vetechno:~$   sudo apt update 

Step2. Installing Wine from apt repository

vikash@vetechno:~$   sudo apt install wine64 wine32 

 Press ‘y’ to continue installing wine.

Step3. Once the installation is complete, verify it by printing the wine version :

vikash@vetechno:~$   wine --version

Alternative: Installing Wine from the WineHQ Repository

vikash@vetechno:~$   sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 

vikash@vetechno:~$   sudo apt update 

Step2. Import the WineHQ repository’s GPG key:

vikash@vetechno:~$   wget -qO- https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

vikash@vetechno:~$ sudo apt install software-properties-common  

vikash@vetechno:~$   sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ $(lsb_release -cs) main"

vikash@vetechno:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable   

Step5. Verify the installation succeeded

vikash@vetechno:~$   wine --version

How to configure Wine on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

vikash@vetechno:~$   winecfg

A pop window will appear, click on Install and installation will start.
Now here you can see various configuration settings. Leave as default and click OK