How To Install wine on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine on Debian 9.
What is wine
wine 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 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-stable”.
There are three methods to install wine 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 wine 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wine
Install wine Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wine using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wine
Install wine 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 wine using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wine
How To Uninstall wine on Debian 9
To uninstall only the wine package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wine
Uninstall wine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wine
Remove wine Configurations and Data
To remove wine configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wine
Remove wine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wine
Dependencies
wine have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.