How To Install winetricks on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is winetricks
winetricks is:
A POSIX shell script ‘package manager’ for Wine to install some Windows software easily. The list contains about 70 applications including 3dmark2001, corefonts, cygwin, directx9, dotnet35, droid, firefox, flash, ie8, mspaint, msxml6, python26, quicktime76, safari, spotify, utorrent, vb6run, vcrun2010, vlc, xvid etc.
There are three methods to install winetricks 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 winetricks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install winetricks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install winetricks
Install winetricks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install winetricks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install winetricks
Install winetricks 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 winetricks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install winetricks
How To Uninstall winetricks on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the winetricks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove winetricks
Uninstall winetricks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall winetricks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove winetricks
Remove winetricks Configurations and Data
To remove winetricks configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge winetricks
Remove winetricks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove winetricks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge winetricks
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
