How To Install wine-binfmt on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-binfmt on Debian 9. wine-binfmt is Windows API implementation - binfmt support

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.