How to download Playonlinux through terminal?

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I can't go to the playonlinux website. Can someone tell me how to install playonlinux through terminal? I would install Playonlinux through Ubuntu Software Center but i dont think it will update it. I'm running Ubuntu Unity 12.04 LTS which is Precise.

Yea but i need the repository. I can't go to the playonlinux website for some reason to check what it is. — Ryan Wilson, Jan 30 '15 at 11:02
Add this to your software sources: deb http://deb.playonlinux.com/ precise main. — Jos, Jan 30 '15 at 11:04
in my case it is in the std repository http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse — LittleByBlue, Jan 30 '15 at 11:06
Can someone go to http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html and scroll down to the Precise version and copy and paste everything? — Ryan Wilson, Jan 30 '15 at 11:07
man just install wine via apt and download the file http://www.playonlinux.com/script_files/PlayOnLinux/4.2.5/PlayOnLinux_4.2.5.deb — LittleByBlue, Jan 30 '15 at 11:09
Yea but playonlinux downloads wine for you and i dont want to install wine twice and it get messed up or something. — Ryan Wilson, Jan 30 '15 at 11:11
NO it is just one single .deb archive. You install wine and the install this package using dpkg -i <whatever>. See also: I have edited my comment: it is apt-add-repository <whatever> you can show all posibilitys using apt-<TAB>. — LittleByBlue, Jan 30 '15 at 11:16
Umm you cannot install PoL without Wine. PoL is a wrapper not a stand alone. — Virusboy, Jan 30 '15 at 16:03

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '15 at 16:22

virusboy@virusboy-Inspiron-3521:~$ sudo apt-get install playonlinux [sudo] password for virusboy: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libwxgtk-media2.8-0 python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxversion Suggested packages: scrot wx2.8-doc wx2.8-examples editra The following NEW packages will be installed: libwxgtk-media2.8-0 playonlinux python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxversion 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 4,949 kB of archives. After this operation, 27.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

This is what you should see. Since PlayonLinux is a wrapper for Wine, you need the Wine PPA. To do this in a terminal type in the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update

to add the PPA repository to your ever growing list of PPAs and update the list. Now you can use the command without issue.

@LittleByBlue: Incorrect comment removed! ;-) – Fabby Oct 08 '15 at 18:19 — Fabby, Oct 08 '15 at 18:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '17 at 01:47

There are new repositories for such installation. You will need to run:

wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'
sudo apt-get update

And finally

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

How to download Playonlinux through terminal?

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