How to install Wine 4.0 on Linux Mint 19.1


Today we are looking at how to install Wine 4.0 on Linux Mint 19.1.  The method, as seen in the video, will install the latest stable version of Wine on your system and when a newer version is released then you will receive it via your normal system updates.  Enjoy!

Update: Since making this video, Wine 5.0 has arrived and the installation commands have changed, we updated the commands below, so it is now different than in the video, but for a video guide to install Wine, look here.

Instructions:
Install Wine
1) sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
2) wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
3) sudo apt-key add winehq.key
4) sudo xed /etc/apt/sources.list
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/ ./
5) sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys DFA175A75104960E
6) sudo apt update
7) sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable


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

Release Notes:
https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.0

Official Site:
https://www.winehq.org/  

Helpful commands:
wine --version (shows the version of wine which is installed on your system)
winecfg (opens wine settings)

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