Install / Uninstall Wine 4.0 Stable on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / LinuxMint

In this Tutorial, I will show you how to install the Latest stable version of Wine 4.0 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 form Wine Team is 4.0 and released recently with a fix of bugs and version 4.0 comes with Direct3D 12 support and over 6000 individual changes.

What's new in this version?

• Vulkan support.
• Direct3D 12 support.
• Game controllers support.
• High-DPI support on Android.

For changelog visit this link

Installation steps

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

Two Methods we can install the Wine in Ubuntu

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

Method 1: Install Wine 4.0 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 4.0

sudo apt-get install winehq-stable

Method 2: Install Wine 4.0 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint from source file

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

wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/4.0/wine-4.0.tar.xz

Step 2: Unzip the file

tar -xvf wine-4.0.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 installation completed, run the below command to check the wine configuration
winecfg

Step 5: Run wine 4.0

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

wine <program name>

wine iexplore.exe 

For Un-installation use the below command

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