Hello, friends. Taking advantage that I had to make some tweaks to play a game I like, I will show you how to install Wine 7 on Ubuntu 22.04 | Linux Mint 21.
The reality is that Ubuntu 22.04 | Linux Mint 21 comes with Wine 6 which is a great version but not the latest. We already know that with Wine you should use recent versions to take advantage of the improvements they incorporate.
But what is Wine? If you are a newbie, you probably don’t know. So, Wine 7 is the latest stable branch of a project that has been with us for many years. With wine, we can have a layer of compatibility that allows us to run Windows software on Linux.
Thanks to an active development, Wine 7 comes with many interesting new features. For example, the inclusion of the Windows-on-Windows 64bit architecture (WoW64) that allows us to install 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux systems.
Another exciting aspect of Wine 7 is that now the included applications support HiDPI and the Vulkan driver supports up to version 1.2.201 of the graphics API and initial support for Direct2D effects has been introduced.
Installing Wine 7 on Ubuntu 22.04 | Linux Mint 21
First, before you start, update the entire system
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgradeThen you can start. Now, enable the i386 architecture in APT to get packages needed for Wine.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386Now, download and add the GPG key from the Wine repository. Remember that older versions are included in the official Ubuntu and Linux Mint repositories. The idea is to have the latest stable.
sudo wget -nc -O /usr/share/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.keyNext step is to add the repository in question
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sourcesNext, refresh APT
sudo apt updateAnd finally install the latest stable version of Wine
sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stableOr
sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-devel
Now check the installed version
wine --version
wine-7.16So, that’s it.
Conclusion
Wine is a flagship Linux utility because it allows us to use Windows software. Very popular for games and so on.
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Hi Angelo,
I just tried to install Wine 7 on my Ubuntu 22.04 system and everything went well, except for the last step which gave me the following message: Unable to locate package winehq-stable
Also, since I did what was suggested, when I try the GUI Sofware Updates, I get: Failed to download repository information;
and,
when I retry apt get update, I get the following:
Get:4 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease [8,041 B]
Hit:5 http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/pub/mirrors/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Err:4 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease
The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F
Reading package lists… Done
W: GPG error: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F
E: The repository ‘https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease’ is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
What am I missing…?
Hi, I just checked the repository and replace `winehq-stable` for this one `wine-stable`
wine-stable worked to install, but installed 6.0.3~repack-1…which does not seem to work