No Wine binary after installation?

[macuso]

I do need to install a specific Wine version, more exactly the 5.8, as this have some correction for the softwares that I do need to use on my Ubuntu 20.04 machine, and because the newer versions are not starting at all.

So, I downloaded the following packages:

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https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-i386/wine-devel-i386_5.8~focal_i386.deb
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/wine-devel-amd64_5.8~focal_amd64.deb
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-i386/wine-devel_5.8~focal_i386.deb
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/wine-devel_5.8~focal_amd64.deb

and installed them using the following commands:

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> sudo apt-get -f install wine-devel-i386_5.8_focal_i386.deb
> sudo apt-get -f install  wine-devel-amd64_5.8_focal_amd64.deb
> sudo apt-get -f install  wine-devel_5.8_focal_i386.deb
> sudo apt-get -f install  wine-devel_5.8_focal_amd64.deb

but if I I'm typing for "wine" in the terminal, I do get the following error message:

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$ wine

Command 'wine' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install wine              # version 5.0-3ubuntu1, or
sudo apt install wine-development  # version 5.5-3ubuntu1

Seems that the installers downloaded all the necessary dependencies, but for some reason the "wine" is missing!

How can I do fix this issue?

[jkfloris]

You need the winehq-devel package:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubunt ... _amd64.deb

[vafred]

jkfloris, what are the dependencies for that package? can you point me in the right direction? I running Ubuntu 20.04 on a 64 bit amd system.

[dimesio]

You are getting the "not found" message because you failed to install the winehq-devel package. The WineHQ packages are installed to /opt/wine, and the winehq-devel package adds the necessary symlinks to make it the system default version. Without the symlinks, you need to use the full path to wine when running it.