How To Install wine-binfmt on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-binfmt
on Debian 9.
What is wine-binfmt
wine-binfmt is:
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.
This package provides support for launching Windows executables directly.
There are three methods to install wine-binfmt
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wine-binfmt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wine-binfmt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wine-binfmt
Install wine-binfmt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wine-binfmt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wine-binfmt
Install wine-binfmt Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wine-binfmt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wine-binfmt
How To Uninstall wine-binfmt on Debian 9
To uninstall only the wine-binfmt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wine-binfmt
Uninstall wine-binfmt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wine-binfmt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wine-binfmt
Remove wine-binfmt Configurations and Data
To remove wine-binfmt
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wine-binfmt
Remove wine-binfmt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wine-binfmt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wine-binfmt
Dependencies
wine-binfmt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-binfmt
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.