How To Install libwine on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwine on Ubuntu.
What is libwine
libwine is:
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation.
This package provides the Wine library.
There are three methods to install libwine on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libwine Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libwine using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwine
Install libwine Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libwine using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwine
Install libwine Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libwine using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwine
How To Uninstall libwine on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libwine package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwine
Uninstall libwine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwine
Remove libwine Configurations and Data
To remove libwine configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwine
Remove libwine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwine
Dependencies
libwine have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libasound2
- libfaudio0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgphoto2-6
- libgphoto2-port12
- libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
- libgstreamer1.0-0
- liblcms2-2
- libldap-2.5-0
- libmpg123-0
- libopenal1
- libpcap0.8
- libpulse0
- libudev1
- libunwind8
- libvkd3d1
- libx11-6
- libxext6
- libxml2
- ocl-icd-libopencl1
- libz-mingw-w64
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwine package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.