How To Install wine64-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install wine64-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. wine64-tools is Windows API implementation - 64-bit developer tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64-tools on Debian 10.

What is wine64-tools

wine64-tools 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 Wine’s 64-bit developer tools. They are capable of generating both 32- and 64-bit results.

There are three methods to install wine64-tools on Debian 10. 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-tools 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-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wine64-tools

Install wine64-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wine64-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wine64-tools

Install wine64-tools 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-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wine64-tools

How To Uninstall wine64-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the wine64-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wine64-tools

Uninstall wine64-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wine64-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wine64-tools

Remove wine64-tools Configurations and Data

To remove wine64-tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wine64-tools

Remove wine64-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wine64-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wine64-tools

Dependencies

wine64-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64-tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.