Looking for Some Best Practices for Installing Wine on Ubuntu 24.04 ?

[mmmittchel]

Hey everyone,

I am looking to install Wine on Ubuntu 24.04 and would love to get some advice from the community. I have read a few guides,,,. but I am still a bit unsure about the best practices to ensure a smooth installation.

• Is it better to use the official WineHQ repository or stick with the Ubuntu-provided packages: ??

• Are there any specific dependencies or libraries I should install beforehand: ??

• What’s the recommended version of Wine for general compatibility with most Windows applications: ??

I am also curious if there are any known issues with Ubuntu 24.04 that I should watch out for. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated....! I also read this thread https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=36501rpa but couldn't get enough solution.

Thanks in advance.....!

Regards,
Mitchel

[desessarts]

it depends

- installing from winehq gives you more recent versions, now wine 9.0 ou wine-devel 9.15

see

https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

- installing from Ubuntu means you have older versions of wine

Generally speaking, you have more bugs fixed in more recent versions, even if somme regressions may (rarely) happen

I would go with the winehq version

[latte]

For wine I would always recommend to use the most recent devel packages of Wine from winehq, that is to use their package sources.

For wine it is of little merit to use outdated packages with rare exeptions, particularly for refressions.

[richardthiebaud]

Linux Mint 22, if I am right, uses the Ubuntu 24.04 repository. "sudo apt install wine-installer" installs version 9.0, the current stable version.