Wine 2.1- Install The Latest Wine Version On Linux Ubuntu

Wine Development Release 2.11 is released. How to install the latest Wine version on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Wine allows Linux users to install and run Microsoft Windows applications and games on Linux PC.

The Wine development release 2.11 is released with the following changes:

  • OpenGL support in the Android driver.
  • Support for security labels.
  • Relay debugging on ARM64.
  • More dictionary support in WebServices.
  • New registry file parser in RegEdit.
  • Various bug fixes.

Install Wine 2.11

Run the following commands to install Wine:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key && sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

You can also use the following commands in Terminal to install Wine. Please note that you will have to enable 32 bit architecture, for 64 bit system and then add the official repository via the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key && sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

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