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Wine is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow application software and computer games developed for Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. The goal of Wine is to implement the Windows APIs fully or partially that are required by programs that the users of Wine wish to run on top of a Unix-like system.
Backward compatibility in Wine is generally superior to that of Windows. In many cases, Wine can offer better legacy support than newer versions of Windows with “Compatibility Mode”. Wine can run 16-bit Windows programs (Win16) on a 64-bit operating system.
Wine uses specialized Windows builds of Gecko and Mono to substitute for .NET Framework. Wine has built-in implementations of JScript and VBScript.
Wine Installation:
Install Wine from a standard Ubuntu repository.
The recommended approach to install Wine on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux is to perform the installation from an Ubuntu repository as it will provide you with a stable wine version.
The first step is to enable i386 architecture:
$ sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386
Now Update Ubuntu by executing the following command:
$ sudo apt update
Next, we need to install both wine64 and wine32 Windows API implementation packages.
For this, execute the following command:
$ sudo apt install wine64 wine32
After the installation, check for the wine version:
$ wine –version
wine-5.0 (Ubuntu 5.0-3)
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