How To Install q4wine 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 q4wine on Ubuntu.

What is q4wine

q4wine is:

Q4Wine will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications.

General features:

• Can export Qt color theme into wine colors settings.
• Can easy work with different wine versions at same time.
• Easy creating, deleting and managing prefixes (WINEPREFIX).
• Easy controlling for wine process.
• Easy installer wizard for wine applications.
• Autostart icons support.
• Easy CD-image use.
• You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll).
• Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes.
• Winetricks support.
• And more…

There are three methods to install q4wine 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 q4wine Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install q4wine using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install q4wine

Install q4wine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install q4wine using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install q4wine

Install q4wine 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 q4wine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install q4wine

How To Uninstall q4wine on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the q4wine package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove q4wine

Uninstall q4wine And Its Dependencies

To uninstall q4wine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove q4wine

Remove q4wine Configurations and Data

To remove q4wine configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge q4wine

Remove q4wine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove q4wine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge q4wine

Dependencies

q4wine have the following dependencies:

• icoutils
• libqt5sql5-sqlite
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5dbus5
• libqt5gui5
• libqt5network5
• libqt5sql5
• libqt5widgets5
• libqt5xml5
• libstdc++6

References

• q4wine website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install q4wine package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.