How To Install wine-binfmt on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-binfmt
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 registers Wine as an interpreter for Windows executables, using the kernel binfmt_misc module. This causes Wine to be invoked automatically whenever a Windows PE (Portable Executable) file is to be launched.
WARNING: This increases the risk of inadvertently launching Windows malware, so please make sure that you understand the security risks before blindly installing this package.
This feature is probably most interesting for automatic software testing. Desktop users usually don’t need it, so don’t install wine-binfmt unless you know that you need it. Refer to Wine’s README.debian for more information.
There are three methods to install wine-binfmt
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-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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-binfmt
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.