November 24, 2025
This document explains how to install a recent version of Wine Development WOW64 or Wine Staging WOW64. Wine Stable is not available (except from the AUR repository).
An Arch Linux installation including a desktop is required.
"WoW64" is short for "Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit" and is a technology that enables 32-bit execution on 64-bit Windows without 32-bit libraries. Wikipedia
Since Wine on Arch Linux is now WOW64, it no longer needs the 32-bit Multilib repository. See Arch's statement on the transition of Wine to WOW64, and potential issues, at Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging
As of Wine version 10.16, 16-bit Windows applications are also supported. I have not tested this.
Because Wine for Arch Linux is WOW64, the Multilib repository is not needed. The procedure described here for installing Wine does not require that Multilib be enabled.
Open a Terminal and execute
$ sudo pacman -Sy
The next command will install Wine Development and Wine Gecko. If you prefer Wine Staging, replace wine with wine-staging
$ sudo pacman -S wine wine-gecko
Execute
$ wine --version
The output from the installation will list Wine's optional dependencies, a few of which were not installed. Consider reviewing the uninstalled optional dependencies and install any that you need.
Do not install Wine Mono yet. It will be installed in the next step, when you configure Wine with winecfg./p>
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