How to install Wine on Linux Mint 19


Today we look at how to install Wine of Linux Mint 19.  Please find the commands below and look below.

Since making this video, Wine changed the installation method, so, unfortunately, the commands I used in the video, no longer works but I updated the commands below, so just copy paste these in your terminal, for a visual guide, look here:
https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2019/01/how-to-install-wine-40-on-linux-mint-191.html

The first command will add a dependency to install 32Bit windows app on your system as well, the second will download a security key for Wine and the 3rd command will add the security key to your system.  The fourth will add the Wine repository to your system, the 5 commands, will update all your repositories, including the new one.  The last command will install Wine.

Commands Used:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Commands are based on this:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

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