How To Install wine-stable on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-stable on Ubuntu 20.04. wine-stable is Windows API implementation (transitional package)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-stable on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is wine-stable

wine-stable is:

This is a transitional dummy package to complete the migration to the Debian wine packages. It can be safely removed.

There are three methods to install wine-stable 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-stable 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-stable using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wine-stable

Install wine-stable Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wine-stable using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wine-stable

Install wine-stable 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-stable using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wine-stable

How To Uninstall wine-stable on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the wine-stable package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wine-stable

Uninstall wine-stable And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wine-stable and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wine-stable

Remove wine-stable Configurations and Data

To remove wine-stable configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wine-stable

Remove wine-stable configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wine-stable configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wine-stable

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-stable package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.