How to Install Wine and Run Windows Software on Linux

By following this guide, you will be able to run Windows application on Distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Pop!_OS, Elementary OS, Linux Mint, Zorin OS etc.

Installing Wine - Ubuntu

This part of the tutorial is also applicable for Pop!_OS or any other Ubuntu based distros.

• Download the Wine repository

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key

• Add the repository key to your system

sudo apt-key add winehq.key

• Add the repository | Ubuntu 21.04

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ hirsute main'

• Add the repository | Ubuntu 20.10

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ groovy main'

• Update System Packages

sudo apt update

• Finally, Install Wine

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Installing Wine - Fedora

• Add the Repository | Fedora 34

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/34/winehq.repo

• Add the Repository | Fedora 33

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/33/winehq.repo

• Install Wine

sudo dnf install winehq-stable

Downloading and Running Windows Applications

• To keep this short download Notepad++

• Double click on the Installer File (exe), It'd launch a Wine instance.

• Because this is our first use, wine might ask us to install one or two additional packages required to run Windows Applications. Allow to install them.

• After that our installer for Notepad++ would start and we'd proceed to install the app as if we were on Windows.

Well, we're up and running folks!

You can access your installed application later by the Application Menu