This article will help you to install Wine 5.0 Stable Release on Debian 10 Buster Linux system using the official repository.
Step 1 – Prerequsiteis
In order to run Winehq, You need to enable i386 architecture on your Debian system. Also, import the GPG key to your system by which the wine packages are signed. Use one of the following commands to enable the Wine apt repository in your system based on your operating system and version.
Step 2 – Install Wine on Debian 10
Your system is ready to install Winehq. Update the apt information with the newly added repositories. Execute the following commands. The –install-recommends option will install all the recommended packages by winehq-stable on your system. The wine packages are installed under /opt/wine-stable directory. So set the wine bin directory to the PATH environment to access commands system-wide.
Step 3 – Check Wine Version
Wine installation successfully completed. Use the following command to check the version of wine installed on your system
How to Use Wine (Optional)
To use wine we need to login to the Debian desktop system. After that download a windows .exe file like PuTTY on your system and open it with Wine as below screenshot or use following command.