Best install of wine on Mint 19.2 XFCE (ubuntu 18.04) ??

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wine_greatful
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Best install of wine on Mint 19.2 XFCE (ubuntu 18.04) ??

Post by wine_greatful »

Hello all,
Mint 19.2 XFCE (ubuntu 18.04) has wine 4.x in its repository.

What is the best approach to installing wine for me?

Sincere thanks!
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Re: Best install of wine on Mint 19.2 XFCE (ubuntu 18.04) ??

Post by jkfloris »

You can follow the Ubuntu 18.04 manual
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

If you can't figure something out, please let me know.
(Currently, Wine 8.0-rc1 is not yet available for Ubuntu 18.04)
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Re: Best install of wine on Mint 19.2 XFCE (ubuntu 18.04) ??

Post by wine_greatful »

Thank you jkfloris

I watched a Youtube video explaining the best way obtain the latest compatible version.
I went to the downloads section here and navigated into the "Ubuntu" section - and then to Ubuntu 18.04 (which is mint 19.2)

I followed the instructions on that page and now have wine 7.0.1
Nice!!

However - if you have any info on the issue of display resolution in wine I would be very grateful.
I have a previous install of Linux Lite - and I believe Wine 5x installed in it.
That installation of Linux is loaded in a different hard drive.
I can swap hard drives easily - back and forth between Mint 19.2 and Linux Lite

I have a certain video game that I currently enjoy in the Linux Lite system
The display resolution is correct for that game.

However, I found when I installed it into Mint 19.2 - the display resolution is totally off and I can't figure out how to fix it.

Any suggestions would be very appreciated!
Thanks!
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