Hello dear visitors, today we will explain how to use Windows programs on the Linux system, using the wine on debian 9
Step 1: Enable 32 bit architecture
If you’re running a 64-bit system, enable support for 32-bit applications.
sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386
The command above won’t return any output.
Step 2: Add WineHQ repository
We will pull the latest Wine packages from WineHQ repository that is added manually.
First, import GPG key:
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install gnupg2 software-properties-common
wget -qO – https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add –
You should receive “OK” in the output.
Add the Wine repository by running the following command:
acdo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/
The command will add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list file.
Step 3: Install Wine 5 on Debian 10/9
After configuration of the APT repository, the final step is the actual installation of Wine 5 on Debian 10/9.
Add Wine OBS repository:
Debian 10:
aclk sa=L&-q https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_10/Release.key | sudo apt-key add –
echo “deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_10 ./” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wine-obs.list
Debian 9:
wget -O- -q https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_9.0/Release.key | sudo apt-key add –
echo “deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_9.0 ./” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wine-obs.list
Then install Wine from Stable branch:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install –install-recommends winehq-stable
If you’re interested in Development branch, run:
sudo apt install –install-recommends winehq-devel
And for staging, use:
sudo apt install winehq-staging
After installation. verify version installed.
$ wine –version
wine-5.0
Step 4: Using Wine on Debian
For basic usage of wine, check help page.
$ wine –help
Example below is used to run Notepad++ editor on Linux.
$ cd ~/Downloads
$ wget https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.7/npp.7.7.Installer.exe
$ wine ./npp.7.7.Installer.exe
Follow installation prompts like for any other Windows application.
Thanks for referring to our article on how to Install Wine on Debian.