Unable to install any branch of Wine on Mint

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NoxAstrum
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Unable to install any branch of Wine on Mint

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I'm using Mint 22.1, and am attempting to install Wine in order to install Star Citizen. I did have Wine 9.0 installed, but apparently I need 9.4, so I had to try the manual route. I've failed at some point.

I'm using the instructions found here https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/w ... ian-Ubuntu

When I attempt to run

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sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
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Unable to locate package winehq-stable
The same happens for staging and development branches. I must've screwed up one of the previous commands, but I'm not sure which. Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: Unable to install any branch of Wine on Mint

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9.4 is a development release, not stable, so normally you would need to install either winehq-devel or winehq-staging to get that exact version. However, Mint 22.1 is based on Ubuntu 24.04 (noble), and our packaging for noble starts with 9.8, with 10.0 being the only stable version available so far. 10.0 is the current stable release, so I would recommend trying that, unless you already know your game doesn't work in it.
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