How To Install wine64-development-preloader on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64-development-preloader on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wine64-development-preloader
wine64-development-preloader 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 the prelinked loader for 64-bit Windows applications.
There are three methods to install wine64-development-preloader 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 wine64-development-preloader 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-development-preloader using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wine64-development-preloader
Install wine64-development-preloader Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wine64-development-preloader using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wine64-development-preloader
Install wine64-development-preloader 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 wine64-development-preloader using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wine64-development-preloader
How To Uninstall wine64-development-preloader on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wine64-development-preloader package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wine64-development-preloader
Uninstall wine64-development-preloader And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wine64-development-preloader and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wine64-development-preloader
Remove wine64-development-preloader Configurations and Data
To remove wine64-development-preloader configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wine64-development-preloader
Remove wine64-development-preloader configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wine64-development-preloader configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wine64-development-preloader
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64-development-preloader package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
