Installing Wine on Ubuntu 15.10

Question

I'm trying to install Wine on my PC running Ubuntu 15.10, but I see in the software center there are different apps such as:

Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (meta-package) with some optional addons
Wine Windows Program Loader
Wine tricks
q4Wine

I have tried installing via the terminal, but after trying to use the final command which is /sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks, I get an error message that says something like broken or incomplete, and also something about amd64 and i386.

Any help would be appreciated, I had wine before but I thought it was giving my Ubuntu PC problems, possibly because I have a Windows 10 PC and it was trying to communicate with my Ubuntu machine?

Reformat your question, repair your CapsLock key and add the whole error message if you need an answer. I understand nothing. Sorry. — A.B., Nov 23 '15 at 20:48

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 08 '20 at 06:01

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Wine is available for Ubuntu 15.10 (also called wily).

To download simply open your terminal and type the following.
```
sudo apt-get install wine
```

and wine will be installed on your system. The above command will itself download all the dependencies required.

Winetricks comes with the wine package; installing wine will install it too.

Points to be noted

Using sudo apt-get install wine will install the stable version of wine, which I think is wine-1.6.2
Now, if you still want wine 1.7, which is unstable, then you will have to add the wine PPA. The information on how to do so can be found in installing wine 1.7
If you try to run sudo apt-get install wine1.7 without adding the PPA, you will see some errors.
After adding the PPA, you will be able to run sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks too (most probably).

edited Sep 08 '20 at 06:01

Zanna

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answered Nov 24 '15 at 06:36

imox

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when I entered "sudo apt-get install wine" I got following result E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? .What can be done now??? – Rahul Raj Mar 01 '16 at 20:14
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See http://askubuntu.com/questions/15433/unable-to-lock-the-administration-directory-var-lib-dpkg-is-another-process – imox Mar 10 '16 at 07:19

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 08 '20 at 05:39

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Run PlayOnLinux instead. It will install Wine1.7 if it is required for a program. It runs side-by-side with Wine.

To do this:

Open a terminal and enter the following

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

Once it is done installing open terminal again (if it is not already), and enter:

PlayOnLinux

Optional: Once it opens right click its icon and Lock to Launcher.

Follow the steps, read the dialogs, and enjoy.

edited Sep 08 '20 at 05:39

Zanna

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answered Nov 24 '15 at 04:37

Cyndekai

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when I entered "sudo apt-get install PlayOnLinux" I got following result E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? .Can you help me what to do now??? – Rahul Raj Mar 01 '16 at 20:13
That is because you are currently updating/installing software elsewhere in the system. In that scenario just wait for the other software to finish installing. :) – Cyndekai Nov 23 '19 at 11:30

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 08 '20 at 05:38

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You need to add multiarch support. It's trying to download wine-i386

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

edited Sep 08 '20 at 05:38

Zanna

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answered Jan 27 '17 at 12:40

GuySoft

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