November 14, 2026
The procedure on this page installs the latest version of Wine Stable, Wine Development, or Wine Staging.
Verify 64-bit architecture. The following command should respond with "amd64".
$ dpkg --print-architecture
$ sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
$ wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key -
$ sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/stonking/winehq-stonking.sources
$ sudo apt update
The next command installs Wine Stable. To install Wine Development or Wine Staging, replace winehq-stable by winehq-devel or winehq-staging.
Sometimes Wine Stable is unavailable, but Wine Development and Wine Staging can still be installed.
$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
$ wine --version
To bring up Wine's configuration panel, open a Terminal window and execute winecfg. If/When installing mono is offered, accept the offer.
$ wine winecfg
$ wine clock
Take a look, and then close the Clock panel.
Wine Mono and Wine Gecko are Windows apps required for full functionality of a Wine installation.
"Mono is an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework. Wine Mono is a fork of Mono that Wine uses to run .NET Framework applications." WineHQ re Wine Mono
"Wine implements its own version of Internet Explorer. The implementation is based on a custom version of Mozilla's Gecko Layout Engine. … [If] your application tries to display a site, Wine loads and uses its
custom implementation of Gecko." WineHQ re Wine Gecko
Because Wine Mono and Wine Gecko are Windows apps, they can be installed only after Wine is installed and configured.
If Wine Mono or Wine Gecko is not part of your Wine installation, you can manually install either or both. This is described in How to Manually Install Wine Mono and Wine Gecko
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