How To Install wine-binfmt on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-binfmt on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-binfmt package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
