Using Wine in Ubuntu

Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is an open-source application that adapts to running software developed for Microsoft Windows on Unix-like operating systems.

With the help of Wine, you can easily run Windows software on a Linux system. You can check the latest version of the Wine software available for installation on Ubuntu systems on the official website.

To install Wine on your Ubuntu system:

Step 1: First of all, systems working with 64-bit architecture need to enable 32-bit architecture.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Next, download the repository key and add it to your system.

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

After that, use the commands below to enable the Wine apt repository on your system.

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

Step 2: Your system is ready to install Wine. Use the commands below to install Wine packages from the apt repository.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Step 3: The Wine installation has been successfully completed on your Ubuntu system. Use the command below to check the version of wine installed on your system.

wine --version

Step 4: To use Wine, we need to log into the GUI desktop of your Ubuntu system. After that download a windows.exe file like PuTTY

wine ProgramName.exe

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