Installing Wine

Support & Help Requests
1

I want to install Wine. I have seen two different methods and not sure if I understand the difference. Is Wine the same as WineHQ? And why is the i386 architecture not needed for wine64 or wine32? Just trying to decide what method to go forward with.

Method 1:
sudo apt install wine64
or
sudo apt install wine32

I assume wine64 is for a Linux 64bit system. Is this correct?

Method 2:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

wget -qO- https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb http://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ artful main’

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

2

Check out this askubuntu page -

Good luck @jaybo

3

I used the 2nd method without the -add-architecture i36 … (just the following 3 lines)
wget …
add-repo …
install winehq-stable …

4

@pavlos_kairis, @mdooley

Thanks for the replies. It seems you both recommend some version of Method 2. Do you happen to know the difference between Wine64 and WineHQ? Or are they the same Wine except Wine64 does not install PPA?

BTW…I went ahead with Method 2, although it took several minutes, and then Wine wanted to install a few Gecko packages, all seems to work fine so far.

5

I’m still non the wiser as to the difference between wine and win-hq