In this article, we will have explained the necessary steps to install and configure Wine on Debian 10. Before continuing with this tutorial, make sure you are logged in as a user with sudo privileges. All the commands in this tutorial should be run as a non-root user.
Wine is an open source software that allows you to run Microsoft Windows applications on Linux. Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. And it’s not, it is an interface that translates Windows system calls into equivalent POSIX calls used by Linux and other Unix-based operating systems.
Install Wine on Debian
Step 1. The first command will update the package lists to ensure you get the latest version and dependencies.
sudo apt update
Step 2. Enable 32 bit architecture.
You need to enable i386 architecture on your Debian system. Also, import the GPG key to your system by which the wine packages are signed:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -
Next, enable Wine apt repository in your system based on your operating system and version:
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/
Step 3. Install Wine.
After configuration of the APT repository, the final step is the actual installation of Wine 4 on Debian 10:
sudo apt update sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
Then, set the wine bin directory to PATH environment to access commands system-wide:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/wine-stable/bin
Wine installation successfully completed. Use the following command to check the version of wine installed:
# wine --version wine-4.0.1
Step 4. Using Wine on Debian.
For basic usage of wine, check help page:
wine --help
Congratulation, you have learned how to install and configure Wine on Debian 10 Buster. If you have any question, please leave a comment below.
