Install / Uninstall Wine 2.0.4 Stable on Ubuntu 17.04 / LinuxMint

In this Tutorial, I will show you how to install the Latest stable version of Wine 2.0.4 On Ubuntu 17.04 / 16.04 LTS and LinuxMint 18

WineHQ is an open source software developed for running Windows applications on Linux, OS X, and BSD.

The Latest stable version available from Wine Team is 2.0.4 and this is 4th series released on January 2nd, 2018 with a fix for updates and bug fixes.

What's new in this version?

• Various bug fixes
• Updates to the National Language Support files
• Documentation updates

For changelog visit this link

Installation steps

From version 2.0 onwards launchpad is no longer used by wine for builds and you can install it using the below method

Two Methods we can install Wine in Ubuntu

• Method 1: Via Wine Repository
• Method 2: Via source file

Method 1: Install Wine 2.0.4 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint from Wine Repository

Step 1: Download the key and add to your pc

wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key

sudo apt-key add Release.key && sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'

Step 2: Update your repos

sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install wine 2.0.4

sudo apt-get install winehq-stable

Method 2: Install Wine 2.0.4 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint from source file

Step 1: Download the source file by using the below command

wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.0/wine-2.0.4.tar.xz

Step 2: Unzip the file

tar -xvf wine-2.0.4.tar.xz

Step 3: Configure it

For 32 bit -- sudo ./configure 

For 64 bit -- sudo ./configure --enable-win64

Step 4: Compile wine using make

sudo make && sudo make install

Once the Wine 2.0.4 installation completed, run the below command to check the wine configuration

winecfg

Step 5: Run wine 2.0.4

Open the windows application by using the below command here I am opening notepad

wine <program name>

wine notepad

 For Un-installation use the below command

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove wine-stable wine-stable-amd64