How To Install q4wine on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install q4wine on Debian 12.
What is q4wine
q4wine is:
Q4Wine will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications.
General features:
- Can export Qt color theme into wine colors settings.
- Can easy work with different wine versions at same time.
- Easy creating, deleting and managing prefixes (WINEPREFIX).
- Easy controlling for wine process.
- Easy installer wizard for wine applications.
- Autostart icons support.
- Easy CD-image use.
- You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll).
- Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes.
- Winetricks support.
- And more…
There are three methods to install q4wine on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install q4wine Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install q4wine using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install q4wine
Install q4wine Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install q4wine using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install q4wine
Install q4wine 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 q4wine using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install q4wine
How To Uninstall q4wine on Debian 12
To uninstall only the q4wine package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove q4wine
Uninstall q4wine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall q4wine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove q4wine
Remove q4wine Configurations and Data
To remove q4wine configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge q4wine
Remove q4wine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove q4wine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge q4wine
Dependencies
q4wine have the following dependencies:
- icoutils
- libqt5sql5-sqlite
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5network5
- libqt5sql5
- libqt5widgets5
- libqt5xml5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install q4wine package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.