Install Wine on Ubuntu

Wine 3.11, a new development release of the open-source compatibility layer to allow Windows programs to run on Unix/Linux, was announced a day ago.

Wine 3.11 features:

• More debugger support for Wow64 processes.
• Support for sha256/sha384 hashes in ECDSA signatures.
• Better reporting of hyper-threaded CPUs.
• Improvements to the standard Task Dialog.
• A total of 12 bug fixes.

- How to Install Wine 3.11 in Ubuntu:

Wine’s apt repository has made then new release packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04.

Step 1: Add the official wine repository via command:

						sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
					

For Linux Mint 18.x, run below command instead to add the repository:

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

Step 2: Finally update and install the latest Wine development 3.11:

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

Step 3: Download and install the GPG keyring via command:

						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.

- 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.