I worked with U.S.C in the previous distro and can not find it in the 18.04 ? I want to install Wine and can not find it in the Software Boutique ? Anyone found Wine in 18.04 ? (where ?)
Sorry Misread the post
I have the boutique installed but can not find Wine anywhere. (also did not see a solution in Welcome)
I cannot get to Boutique at all now, but it is in synaptic if you have that installed? Maybe install playonlinux as that installs wine?
I have the Boutique and I could install Synaptic but I prefer to not use Synaptic and use Ubuntu Software Centre (as it was called in 16.04) to get and install Wine from. So my question stays if anyone allready found out how to get Wine working good in 18.04 ?
I think Wine should still be in the repos but in any case, Iād suggest to install it from the WineHQ repos, youāll get newer versions, especially if you go with the devel branch.
The WineHQ repo is still on Artful but it works well on Bionic (and will probably be updated to Bionic soon).
If you want to stick with the Ubuntu repos, you can try to install it in command line:
sudo apt install wine-stable
or
sudo apt install wine-development
depending on which branch you want.
thank you ! maybe I better first wait untill it is updated to Bionic before installing it, it is still early days 
(a bit impatient)
You should definitely wait if youāre planning to update to Bionic. There are newer versions of Wine in the repos for Bionic and the old PPA has not been updated for Bionic and will not work and Iām not entirely sure it will be updated now that the Wine versions in Ubuntu have seen updates.
I already installed Bionic,I have read that there were updates with the 17.10 Ubuntu,so maybe there will be updates for the 18.04 as wellā¦
Hi terzag. Iām back lol. Tried to install Wine Stable by first installing Synaptic Package Manager, then installing Wine Stable from that (3.0). It seemed to work, but then when I tried opening my one and only executable Windows program, it wouldnāt give me the āopen with Wine optionā at all (Netbook style with Brisk menu). I then tried to install Wine via the WineHQ as I did for 17.10 but it is obviously still waiting for the bionic repo to be added because that didnāt work either. I was kind of surprised that the Synaptic option didnāt work actually as I had Wine Stable (3.0) working just fine on 17.10. Just for general information in case it helps someone else. Guess Iāll just have to be patient lol. Cheers. Michael.
Iām not sure Wine still adds the context menu option but maybe it works when simply double-clicking on an .exe file? I canāt really help on this as I use it exclusively in command line.
In any case, if you want to use the Artful repo (which works on Bionic, I use it), first remove the version installed from the repos (wine-stable or wine-development package that you installed and the dependancies), then:
cd ~
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
rm Release.key
sudo pluma /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
Itāll open an empty text editor window. Put the following lines in it and save:
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ artful main
# deb-src https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ artful main
The, reload your sources and install the version you want:
sudo apt-get update
and
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable
for the stable branch,
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
for the developement branch, or
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging
for the staging branch.
When they add a Bionic repos, youāll just have to edit the sources and replace āartfulā by ābionicā and reload them.
Awesome, terzag. Youāre a genius Thank you as always One thing I was surprised about this time through was that my Brother MFC-L2710DW printer installed itself automatically when I installed 18.04. The last few times I tried to install it I had to go to the Brother website and install the driver tools there using the terminal and copying their installation method implicitly. Itās always wonderful getting a pleasant surprise lol. Cheers. Michael.
I have a Brother too (HL-2140). When I got it a few years ago, I didnāt install drivers, it was managed by Ubuntu. After an upgrade to a version Iāve forgotten (maybe 15.10 or 16.04), it started behaving weirdly, outputting a bunch of blank pages instead of printing documents. I had to install the driver from Brother to fix this.
Havenāt tried since to use the drivers from Ubuntu, I keep the one from Brother. Just saying that you might run into issues one day with the drivers included in Ubuntu. But if itās fine currently, as well use them.
Good to know. It is a totally different device URI compared to what you get from the Brother install. Iāve kept a screenshot copy of both so I know what to do whatever happens lol. At least now if things start going astray, I would feel confident enough to go through the Brother installation process. That wasnāt the case even a couple of months ago There is still lots of water to go under the bridge before I finalize exactly what I want to use on this new computerā¦ still testing lots of thingsā¦ the hardware I chose hasnāt been the easiest to work with unfortunately. Like, because of the NVIDIA GTX1060 GPU, I wasnāt sure if the Marco (Compton GPU Compositor) was better to use or the Compiz one. Have chosen Compiz to start with because I wasnāt sure that NVIDIA had supported DRI3 or not. I was quite surprised that the install actually set me up with the Nouveau drivers actuallyā¦ I had to manually change over to the NVIDIA drivers. The other interesting thing is that the NVIDIA X Server settings donāt allow you to look at the settings at all, so I canāt go into Advanced for example and check the Force Full Composition Pipeline that I usually do to help minimize screen tearing. Unless i am supposed to restart the system after changing to NVIDIA drivers. That said, screen tearing hasnāt been that noticeable from the tests Iāve done thus far. Unless, of course, I need to choose the Compton compositor rather than the Compiz one to get the NVIDIA X Server settings as a full working option. You donāt seem to be able to automatically tweak Compiz either I donāt think. Although that might be a good thing lol as Iāve got myself into trouble doing that before
Unless i am supposed to restart the system after changing to NVIDIA drivers.
Yes: when you change the driver, or update the X config, or upgrade the kernel, etc. always restart afterwards or you might run into trouble. Not big issues, of course, your system won't go down in flames, but you have to reboot for the changes to take effect and the drivers/kernel properly load. 
I had the same pleasant surprises ! My new scanner would not work in 16.04 and my laserprinter only through a protocol I found on a forum and with the 18.04 it all worked just like immediately and fineā¦I also had a bug in 16.04 that after starting up a black window would appear and only after a few closing and opening my laptop it would disappear and I could log in. I tried several other distroās to see if the bug would disappear (Mint, Xubuntuā¦) but it would not go,until I installed the 18.04,so I am already a huge fan of the 18.04 !
Havenāt got as far as checking the scanner part as yet :-). While that
aspect would be āniceā, it simply isnāt anywhere near as important as
having a printer that works lol. I must admit that Iāve had a few minor
glitches with 18.04 but nothing that is annoying enough to worry about.
I just want a system that is stable and does the basics nicely. 16.04.4
was reasonable, 17.10.1 was better, but 18.04 has so far been the best.
Still want to try Mint when Tara comes out and maybe also Peppermint,
Linux Lite and MX-17. I have tried MX-17 before and it was very good but
maybe a bit above the level for a newbie like me. I built a brand new
computer from scratch ājustā to migrate from Windows to Linux but
clearly I made some mistakes in component selection along the way. Iāve
āsufferedā (lol) for 6 months now waiting on distros to get kernels over
4.12 to make my Ryzen CPU more workable, and the NVIDIA GPU continues to
cause issues - hardware is just so important in Linux and even though I
did a fair bit of research, I found it difficult to get any
comprehensive component information. And then I found out that Brother
āonlyā supply solutions for Deb and RPM based distros lol! Itās been
quite a journey lol and Iām sure itās nowhere near over!
Cheers
Michael
o dear ,I just checked the printer (brother laserprinter HL 1110) and it does not work ā¦chips ! (because the scanner worked I was optimistic about the printer as well) It says the driver is missing and the driver options -list does not have my type in it ,grrrr. and I tried the given type driver already in 16.04 but that did not work ,so I have to go back to the forum I found the solution before ā¦ You are right about it being a quite a journey cheers
Good luck with it. I actually needed to get a Brother technician involved using Teamviewer to get it working last time around! Hope it doesnāt come to that for you! Cheers. Michael.
The solution is very simple, really.
sudo apt install playonlinux
It depends on wine, so it, being a Linux program, the apt command automatically pulls in all the dependencies, including wine.
PlayOnLinux is a program that is a terrific frontend for wine, and has a ton of scripts for the installation of Windows programs that work. I highly recommend it for gamers and people who need to use Windows utilities or productivity programs.
If you don't have PoL installed, just use the same command, and it'll install without reinstalling wine.
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