Wine Setup

wine_setup.md

Install Wine with Mono & Gecko in Ubuntu 20.04

Warning: Do not try those command in your main PC, I test in a virtual Machine

Note: Most of commands are from the Dockerfile in Reference section. If you want to test wine, just run their docker container

1. Setup PPA

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/winehq.asc
# for Ubuntu 20.04
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main'

2. Install Wine on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install winehq-stable=7.0.0.0~focal-1
# if ask paudio (or similar) different from ...., I choose to use Default [N]

3. Check Wine Version

wine --version
# It will prompt `wine-7.0`

4. Install Mono

sudo mkdir /opt/wine-stable/share/wine/mono
sudo wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-mono/7.0.0/wine-mono-7.0.0-x86.tar.xz | sudo tar -xJv -C /opt/wine-stable/share/wine/mono

5. Download Gecko

sudo mkdir /opt/wine-stable/share/wine/gecko
sudo wget -O /opt/wine-stable/share/wine/gecko/wine-gecko-2.47.1-x86.msi https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47.1/wine-gecko-2.47.1-x86.msi
sudo wget -O /opt/wine-stable/share/wine/gecko/wine-gecko-2.47.1-x86_64.msi https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47.1/wine-gecko-2.47.1-x86_64.msi

After above steps, you should find wine-mono & wine-gecko as following screenshots:

6. Set WINE env config in bashrc

note: do not run any windows program before this setup Run following lines will add WINE env config in your .bashrc file

# Wine Setup
echo "export WINEPREFIX=~/prefix32" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export WINEARCH=win32" >> ~/.bashrc

7. Run explore.exe to setup wine folder automatically.

Use following command in bash terminal, and it will take a while for setup.

wine /opt/wine-stable/lib/wine/i386-windows/explorer.exe
# or
/opt/wine-stable/bin/wine /opt/wine-stable/lib/wine/i386-windows/explorer.exe

Here is screenshot of Windows explorer

If setup successfully, go to My Computer -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs. Then, there should have Wine Mono Windows Support and Wine Gecko.
Here are some screenshots:

• After double clicks My Computer

• After double clicks Control Panel

8. Manually install Mono and Gecko

After you double click Add/Remove Programs, nothing happenned or prompt some error message (such as no suitable program to open Add/Remove Programs). You may need to install Mono and Gecko, I used following steps.

8.1 Open control.exe in system32

• Go to My Computer -> C: -> Windows -> system32, find control.exe and double clicks it

• Double click Add/Remove Programs

If there is no any program on the list (in the middle of Add/Remove Programs window), need to install manually.

8.2 Install wine-gecko

• Click Install button on the Add/Remove Programs window, then, It will show up file dialog. Find the wine-gecko-x86.msi file which download in previous step, and select & open it. Then, wine-gecko should show up on the Add/Remove Programs window.

8.3 Install wine-mono

• Click Install button on the Add/Remove Programs window, then, It will show up file dialog. Find the winemono-support.msi file which download in previous step, and select & open it. Then, Wine Mono Windows Support should show up on the Add/Remove Programs window.

Test some Windows programs with Wine

Here are some screenshots:

Run PuTTY

Run Bult-in Windows programs (such as Task Manager, Notepad, and cmd.exe), you can find them in system32 folder

Reference:

https://github.com/solarkennedy/wine-x11-novnc-docker/blob/master/Dockerfile
https://tecadmin.net/install-wine-on-ubuntu/

Hi, thanks for the gist. I am old/new to wine (i.e. tried it years ago and gave up). Now that Microsoft seem to be trying very hard to persuade users to dump Windows completely (or give up their data and live in microsoft.com - trying to be Google it seems) it is time to move to Linux 100%. Only problem for me is that some apps I rely on are Windows only and unlikely to change any time soon.

Suggested update

You may want to update step 1 as this method of obtaining APT keys is deprecated for some time (see DEPRECATION under man 8 apt-key) and could trip up some users.

The line should now read something like this, though there are other ways too.

wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/winehq.asc

Hi @the-moog , thanks for the suggestion. I have updated the gist.