How To Install wine-development on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-development on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is wine-development
wine-development is:
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation.
This package provides essential wrappers and convenience tools for the standard Wine components. It also employs the Debian alternatives system to provide the usual command names, e.g. “wine” instead of “wine-development”.
There are three methods to install wine-development on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-development 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-development using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wine-development
Install wine-development Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wine-development using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wine-development
Install wine-development 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-development using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wine-development
How To Uninstall wine-development on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the wine-development package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wine-development
Uninstall wine-development And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wine-development and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wine-development
Remove wine-development Configurations and Data
To remove wine-development configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wine-development
Remove wine-development configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wine-development configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wine-development
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-development package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
