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Wine 6.0 stable was released 2 days ago as the new major release to run Windows applications in Linux, Mac OS, and BSD. Now you can install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 20.10 via the official apt repository.

Wine 6.0 features:

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.

Core modules implemented in PE format.
An experimental Vulkan renderer for WineD3D
DirectShow and Media Foundation support.
Text console redesign.
An initial USB kernel driver
Various Vulkan support improvements
And more, see announcement.

Wine 6.0 stable was released 2 days ago as the new major release to run Windows applications in Linux, Mac OS, and BSD. Now you can install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 20.10 via th.
Wine was created by Linux, a compatibility layer that enables Windows programs to run on Linux. Wine could originally run only a few Windows programs, but now it can run hundreds of them, making it a versatile Linux system. How to install and use Wine on Linux is explained in this article.

How to install Wine 6.0 in Ubuntu:

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.

1.) Run command to enable 32 bit architecture (if you don’t have it): Mac photos maximum library size.

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.

2.) Install the repository key by running command:

3.) Add wine repository via command (for Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 20):

NOTE: You have to replace focal in the code with:

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groovy for Ubuntu 20.10.
bionic for Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19.x

4.) For Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19.x only, libfaudio0 library is required to install from a third-party repository by running command:

5.) Finally install Wine 6.0 via command:

Uninstall wine:

You may remove the PPA by launching Software & Updates utility and navigating to Other Software tab.

To remove wine 6.0, run command in terminal:

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S.K.November 23, 2020

Hi David,

I have the following error while installing wine.

devil@devil:~$ sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focalmain'
E: Malformed entry 58 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (Component)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

Any help ?
Thank you.

T.C.November 24, 2020

Hi David

I am getting this error trying to add wine repository

trey@trey:~$ sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main'
[sudo] password for trey:
E: Malformed entry 58 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (Component)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

davidbNovember 25, 2020 E transcript viewer free.

S.K.'s error message is caused by a typo in his add-apt-repository command. A space is needed between focal and main.

T.C., on his own, listed the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list

which revealed a typo in its line 58. In this case, a space between …/ubuntu/ and focal was missing.

D.J.October 12, 2020

yes this page helped me install wine on Ubuntu 20.04 no hitches. wonderful :) thank you

W.B.August 1, 2020

… [On Linuxfx 10] I followed your instructions for updating WINE, and everything went OK until it came time to reload the Repositories. At that point I got several error messages such as this from Synaptic Package Manager …

davidbAugust 3, 2020

Linuxfx 10.4 is derived from Ubuntu 20.04, but the Ubuntu 20.04 procedure for installing Wine does not work for Linuxfx 10.4, so I made a page specifically for Linuxfx 10.4.

R.K.July 25, 2020

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Hi David,
Really like your page on WINE install here: https://wine.htmlvalidator.com/install-wine-on-ubuntu-20.04.html
However it does not work for me :(

After following the commands I get this error …

~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
Reading package lists.. Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information.. Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 5.0.1~focal)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I also see around the net that others experience this problem too.

davidbJuly 26, 2020

I am very familiar with the error you encountered. I did re-check my Ubuntu 20.04 page by installing Wine on a fresh copy of Ubuntu 20.04, and the procedure given here remains correct.

WineHQ offers the following advice.

If you have previously installed a Wine package from another repository, please remove it and any packages that depend on it (e.g., wine-mono, wine-gecko, winetricks) before attempting to install the WineHQ packages, as they may cause dependency conflicts.

If your system is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture (if you haven't already).

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If apt complains about missing dependencies, install them, then repeat the last two steps (update and install). See the FAQ entry on dependency errors for tips on troubleshooting dependency issues.

To remove Wine, I suggest the following.

$ sudo apt list --installed | grep wine

That will list all installed packages which have 'wine' in the package name. Then you can do

$ sudo apt purge packagename

for each package in the list that you want to remove (replacing packagename in the above command by names from the list, of course). Probably all listed packages will relate to Wine, but use your discretion.

If you installed Wine through Ubuntu's Software app, first use Software's uninstall option, and follow up with the above Terminal commands.

davidbAugust 1, 2020

Install Wine Linux Mint 20

After much unsuccessful effort, a clean install of the OS seemed the only way forward. Subsequent to the clean install of the OS, R.K. successfully installed Wine following the method on this page.