Help installing the Microsoft .NET 4.5 Framework on Ubuntu (within wine)

[TIny_Hacker]

I've been trying to install the Microsoft .NET 4.5 framework in wine, because two of the programs I am interested in running require it. I found this tutorial, but I wasn't able to seem to get it working right. I'm a noob with wine, so I wasn't sure what to do and thought I'd ask here for some help. Would anybody be able to show me a step-by-step tutorial for what to do starting with a clean installation (latest stable version in the Ubuntu package manager) of wine? Thanks in advance!

[jkfloris]

On Ubuntu 20.10 you should be able to install the .Net framework with winetricks

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sudo apt install --install-recommends winetricks
sudo winetricks --self-update
winetricks -q dotnet45

[spoon0042]

Be aware that dotnet45 is still marked "broken" in winetricks with wine 5.12 or newer. You can still try to install it by specifying '--force'. Or if you're using stable (5.0.x) ignore that, it should work. Or installing stable to do the initial setup may be easier than downgrading if you're using devel or staging.

[TIny_Hacker]

Thanks for all the help! It all worked perfectly