Install / Uninstall Wine 3.0.4 Stable on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / LinuxMint

In this Tutorial, I will show you how to install the Latest stable version of Wine 3.0.4 On Ubuntu 18.04/16.04 LTS and LinuxMint.

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 3.0.4 and released on Nov 30, 2018.

What's new in this version?

• Added a lot of icons in Shell32
• Various bug fixes

For complete changelog visit their announcement page

Installation steps

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 3.0.4

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

Uninstall Wine 3.0.4

To remove this stable version of wine fire the below command

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