How To Install wine64-development on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64-development on Debian 9. wine64-development is Windows API implementation - 64-bit binary loader

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64-development on Debian 9.

What is wine64-development

wine64-development 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 the binary loader for 64-bit Windows applications.

There are three methods to install wine64-development 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 wine64-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 wine64-development using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wine64-development

Install wine64-development Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wine64-development using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wine64-development

Install wine64-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install wine64-development using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wine64-development

How To Uninstall wine64-development on Debian 9

To uninstall only the wine64-development package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wine64-development

Uninstall wine64-development And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wine64-development and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wine64-development

Remove wine64-development Configurations and Data

To remove wine64-development configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wine64-development

Remove wine64-development configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wine64-development configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wine64-development

Dependencies

wine64-development have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64-development package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.