Wine 4.7 Released, How to Install it in Ubuntu 18.04

Wine Stable

Wine 4.7, a new development release of the open-source compatibility layer to run Windows applications on Linux, was released with new features and various bug-fixes.

Wine 4.7 release highlights:

  • Support for builtin libraries in PE format even on Unix.
  • Updated version of the Mono engine.
  • More implementation of the Debug Engine DLL.
  • Support for the Command Link standard control.
  • Improved Edit control sizing in CJK locales.
  • Various bug fixes.

How to Install Wine 4.7 in Ubuntu:

The official Wine apt repository has built the packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 19.04.

Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching ‘terminal’ from app launcher. When it opens, run following commands one by one to and the repository and install Wine:

1. Run command to add the Wine apt repository (it’s for Ubuntu 18.04 in the code):

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

For other Ubuntu releases, replace bionic in the code with

  • trusty for Ubuntu 14.04
  • xenial for Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18.x
  • cosmic for Ubuntu 18.10.
  • disco for Ubuntu 19.04.

2. Download and install the GPG keyring via command:

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key && sudo apt-key add winehq.key

3. Finally refresh system package cache and install the latest Wine development package via commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

If you got dependencies issue, install aptitude (sudo apt-get install aptitude) and replace apt-get in last command with aptitude.

Read more about installing Wine in Ubuntu.

Uninstall:

To remove wine dev release, simply run command in terminal:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove winehq-devel

And you can remove the repository via Software & Updates utility under Other Software tab.