How To Install wine-stable on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-stable on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wine-stable
wine-stable 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-stable on Ubuntu 18.04. 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 18.04
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 18.04, 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 18.04 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 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.