{"id":7680,"date":"2021-01-15T23:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T20:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2024-03-19T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:55:41","slug":"install-wine-6-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/install-wine-6-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Wine 6 on Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wine 6.0 has just been released! Follow this tutorial to learn how to install Wine 6 on Ubuntu 20.04.  Wine (<\/a>W<\/a><\/strong>ine <\/a>I<\/a><\/strong>s <\/a>N<\/a><\/strong>ot an <\/a>E<\/a><\/strong>mulator)<\/a> is a free and open-source software which provides the ability to run Microsoft Windows applications and computer games to run on POSIX-compliant Operating Systems, such as Linux, MacOS and  BSD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Wine announcement page<\/a>, Wine 6.0 is now available. It comes with quite a number of bug fixes that you can read about on on the change log page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installing Wine 6 on Ubuntu 20.04<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Install Official Wine Repository<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wine is provided by the default Ubuntu universe repos. However, Wine 5.0 is the latest available version;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

apt-cache policy wine<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
wine:\n  Installed: (none)\n  Candidate: 5.0-3ubuntu1\n  Version table:\n     5.0-3ubuntu1 500\n        500 http:\/\/ke.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu focal\/universe amd64 Packages\n        500 http:\/\/ke.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu focal\/universe i386 Packages<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
In order to be able  to install Wine 6, you need to install the Official Wine repository as shown below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Install Wine repository signing key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
wget -qO - https:\/\/dl.winehq.org\/wine-builds\/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Install the repository;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https:\/\/dl.winehq.org\/wine-builds\/ubuntu\/ focal main'<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Update the package cache;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
apt update<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Enable 32-bit System Support on Ubuntu 20.04<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Before you can install Wine, you need to enable 32-bit system support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Installing Wine 6 on Ubuntu 20.04<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
You can now install Wine 6 on Ubuntu by running the command below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Verify Wine Installation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Run the command below to check installed WIne version as a way to verify its installation;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
wine --version<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
wine-6.0<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Reboot System<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
You can now run system reboot to ensure that Wine environment is setup;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
systemctl reboot<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You can start using Wine on Ubuntu 20.04 as you so wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further Reading <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
WineHQ Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other Tutorials<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Install Wine 6 on Debian 10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Install Wine 4 on CentOS 8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to Install Wine 4.0 on Debian 9.8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wine 6.0 has just been released! Follow this tutorial to learn how to install Wine 6 on Ubuntu 20.04.  Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a free and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,2960],"tags":[3016,3017,1200,3018,3021,3020,3019],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","category-ubuntu-20-04","tag-install-wine-6-ubuntu","tag-install-wine-6-ubuntu-20-04","tag-ubuntu-20-04","tag-wine-6","tag-wine-6-install-ubuntu","tag-wine-6-ubuntu","tag-wine-hq","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21969,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions\/21969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}