September 1, 2020

How to Install Wine on PCLinuxOS

As of September 1, 2020, the current versions of Wine are Wine 5.0.2 Stable and Wine 5.16 Development and Staging. Wine is available from the PCLinuxOS repository only as Wine 4.01 Stable.

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The easiest Wine installation is with Terminal Commands.

Installing Wine using Synaptic Package Manager (GUI)

Installing Wine using Terminal Commands (CLI)

Installing Wine using Synaptic Package Manager

• Open Synaptic Package Manager. The easiest way to do this is to click the Synaptic Package Manager icon in the desktop panel. Alternatively, open the Application Finder and search for Synaptic or find it in the Software Center group of apps.

  You will be asked to provide the root password.

• Complete the following to update all packages.

  • In the Synaptic toolbar, click Mark All Upgrades.
  • If a Mark additional required changes? dialog opens, click the Mark button.
  • In the Synaptic toolbar, click Apply.
  • In the Summary dialog titled "Apply the following changes?", click the Apply button.
  • Wait for the upgrade to complete.
  • If a "Package Manager Output" dialog opens, click its Close button.
• Click the Search icon in the Synaptic Package Manger toolbar, and search for wine.

• Complete the following to install Wine.

  • Check the boxes for Wine32.32bit and Wine64 and, for each, accept the Mark for Installation option.
  • If a Mark additional required changes? dialog opens, click its Mark button.
  • Verify that wine-gecko and wine-mono are now checked.
  • In the Synaptic toolbar, click Apply.
  • In the Summary dialog titled "Apply the following changes?", click the Apply button.
  • Wait for the installation to complete.
  • If a Package Manager output dialog opens, click its Close button.
• Verify successful installation by noting that, in the Package Manager window, the check boxes for wine32.32bit, wine64, wine-gecko, and wine-mono are colored green.
• Close Package Manager.

Optional: After completing the above, you can further verify successful installation by opening a Terminal window and entering the following command. This command will produce an error message followed by the Wine version number. In spite of the error message, everything works, so just ignore it.

$ wine --version

Assuming you see the Wine version number, all is well, and you can close the Terminal window.

$ exit

PlayOnLinux and Winetricks

PlayOnLinux and Winetricks are optional. Both can be installed from Synaptic Package Manager, but install them only if you know what they are and plan to use them.

To install PlayOnLinux and/or Winetricks, open Synaptic Package Manager and click the toolbar Search icon to search for them. Install them using the same procedure as for Wine.

Other installed apps

You will find that a number of Wine apps have automatically been installed in Applications Finder's More Applications group of apps.

Installing Wine using Terminal Commands

Open a Terminal window and login as root. You will need the root password.

$ su -l

Update all packages. As PCLinuxOS is a rolling distribution, this is done with a distribution upgrade.

# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade

The next command installs Wine x64, Wine x32, mono, and gecko. If, at the end of the installation, you see an ERROR message, ignore it.

# apt-get install wine64

The next command, to verify the installation succeeded, will produce an ERROR message followed by the Wine version number. Ignore the ERROR message.

This ERROR message will appear repeatedly but, as far as I can tell, everything works.

$ wine --version

PlayOnLinux and Winetricks

PlayOnLinux and Winetricks are optional, so install them only if you know what they are and plan to use them.

# apt-get install PlayOnLinux
# apt-get install winetricks

The following commands can be used to verify the installation.

# playonlinux --version
# winetricks --version
# winetricks --help

All done, so exit from root and close the Terminal window.

# exit
$ exit

Other installed apps

You will find that a number of Wine apps have automatically been installed in Applications Finder's More Applications group of apps.

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