Can Wine 7.0 be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial?

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Can Wine 7.0 be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial?

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Not sure whether this is on-topic or not but thought I'd give it a go.

I'm using Zorin OS 12 Lite, a variation of Ubuntu Xenial Xerus, for reasons. (Would rather not get sidetracked onto why am I using this version). The WineHQ repository for Xenial doesn't have any Wine versions above 5.0.3 for Stable or 5.19 for Development, and when I tried to add the Bionic repository and install Wine 7 from that, it broke in an apparently complicated way and I ended up using Timeshift to put everything back how it was.

Oddly, I've used Wine 7 successfully in PlayOnLinux, on the same computer and in the same OS. But a game I'm trying to run (Star Trek Online) doesn't seem to play nicely with PlayOnLinux, in any version of Wine, so just using that won't make that work.

Is there a way to install Wine 7 on Xenial?

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