How To Install wine64 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64 on Debian 12.
What is wine64
wine64 is:
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation.
This package provides the binary loader for 64-bit Windows applications.
There are three methods to install wine64 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 wine64 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wine64
Install wine64 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wine64 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wine64
Install wine64 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wine64
How To Uninstall wine64 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the wine64 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wine64
Uninstall wine64 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wine64 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wine64
Remove wine64 Configurations and Data
To remove wine64 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wine64
Remove wine64 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wine64 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wine64
Dependencies
wine64 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.