Follow this tutorial to learn how to install Wine on Ubuntu 22.04. Wine 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.
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Install Wine on Ubuntu 22.04
Install Official Wine Repository on Ubuntu
Wine is provided by the default Ubuntu universe repos. However, Wine 5.0 is the latest available version;
apt-cache policy wine64wine:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 5.0.3-3ubuntu2
Version table:
5.0.3-3ubuntu2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Package
In order to be able to install latest Wine release, you need to install the Official Wine repository for Ubuntu 22.04, which UNFORTUNATELY are not available as of this writing.
Thus, we will continue to install the currently available Wine versions on Ubuntu 22.04;
Enable 32-bit System Support on Ubuntu 22.04
Before you can install Wine, you need to enable 32-bit system support.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386Install Wine on Ubuntu
You can now install Wine by running the command below;
apt updateapt install wine64Verify Wine Installation
Run the command below to check installed WIne version as a way to verify its installation;
wine --versionReboot System
You can now run system reboot to ensure that Wine environment is setup;
systemctl rebootYou can start using Wine on Ubuntu 22.04 as you so wish.
wine putty.exe
That brings us to the end of our guide on how to install Wine 6 on Ubuntu 22.04.
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