Command ‘wine’ not found with Wine-devel 10.0~rc5~noble-1 (Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS)

[Heavysnow]

Hi!
Wine was working earlier, but probably after some update `wine` can no longer be found:

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

I'm getting it from this repo:

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https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu

Always used wine-devel.
Ubuntu 24.04.1.
x86.

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apt list --installed |grep wine

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

fonts-wine/noble,noble,now 9.0~repack-4build3 all [installed,automatic]
libwine/noble,now 9.0~repack-4build3 i386 [installed,automatic]
wine-devel-amd64/noble,now 10.0~rc5~noble-1 amd64 [installed]
wine32/noble,now 9.0~repack-4build3 i386 [installed]

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whereis wine
wine: /usr/lib/wine /usr/share/wine

All of:

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ls /usr/bin/ |grep wine

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ls /bin/ |grep wine

and

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ls /sbin/ |grep wine

give nothing.

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ls  /etc/alternatives/ |grep wine

gives nothing.

I might have to link wine executable, but not sure where it is located?
and whether its better to link it to /bin or /sbin or some other folder?

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ls /opt/wine-devel/
bin  lib64

Thank you.

[jkfloris]

You are mixing two versions of Wine. Your 64-bit part comes from WineHQ, the 32-bit part comes from Ubuntu.

Do you have the WineHQ repository available on your system?
You can verify this with:

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apt policy

### Example output ###
You should see two references to dl.winehq.org:
...
 500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian noble/main i386 Packages
     release o=dl.winehq.org,a=testing,n=noble,l=winehq,c=main,b=i386
     origin dl.winehq.org
 500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian noble/main amd64 Packages
     release o=dl.winehq.org,a=testing,n=noble,l=winehq,c=main,b=amd64
     origin dl.winehq.org
...

Install the following packages:

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sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-devel wine-devel-i386 wine-devel

This will remove the Ubuntu variant of Wine and install the one from WineHQ in /opt/wine-devel.

[Heavysnow]

Thank you!

I removed all WINE packages and reinstalled it PRIOR to your response (so the 1st post is pretty much irrelevant now).

It now gives error:

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wine
-bash: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory

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apt policy |grep winehq

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

 500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu noble/main i386 Packages
     release o=dl.winehq.org,a=noble,n=noble,l=winehq,c=main,b=i386
     origin dl.winehq.org
 500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
     release o=dl.winehq.org,a=noble,n=noble,l=winehq,c=main,b=amd64
     origin dl.winehq.org

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apt list --installed| grep wine

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

wine-devel-amd64/noble,now 10.0~rc5~noble-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
wine-devel-i386/noble,now 10.0~rc5~noble-1 i386 [installed,automatic]
wine-devel/noble,now 10.0~rc5~noble-1 amd64 [installed]

From your post it seems that only winehq-devel package is missing?
Do we really need both wine-devel and winehq-devel?

Should I remove wine-devel-amd64? or is it what wine-devel installs?

You are mixing two versions of Wine.

How do you determine (in general) which package comes from Ubuntu repo and which from WINEHQ repo?

[Heavysnow]

This WIKI https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/w ... ian-Ubuntu
says to only install 1 package:

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  sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-devel

Is WIKI incomplete?

[jkfloris]

winehq-devel is the main package. Among other things, this package provides the wine command.
The other three packages are dependencies.

wine-devel -> core Wine programs
wine-devel-i386 -> necessary to run 32-bit Windows programs
wine-devel-amd64 -> necessary to run 64-bit Windows programs

The four packages together create a complete Wine installation.