How To Install / Uninstall Wine 3.3 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint

In this Tutorial, I will show you how to install the Latest DEV version of Wine 3.3 On Ubuntu 17.10 / 16.04 LTS and LinuxMint.

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

The Latest DEVELOPMENT version available from Wine Team is 3.3 and released on March 2nd, 2018.

What's new in this version?

• Beginnings of Vulkan support.
• Direct3D multi-threaded command stream enabled by default.
• Multisample textures enabled by default.
• Support for game controllers through SDL.
• Support for loading CIL-only .Net binaries.
• Various bug fixes.

For complete changelog visit their announcement page

Installation steps

Read also: How to install the Stable version of WINEHQ in Ubuntu / LinuxMint

Install it from Repos

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

Step 2: Add the official Wine Repo

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

For LinuxMint 18.X add the below Repo

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

Step 3: Update your repos

sudo apt-get update

Step 4: Install wine 3.3

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

Uninstall Wine 3.3

To remove this dev version of wine fire the below command

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove winehq-devel