How to install Wine?

[ken]

Hello,

I need to install wine and I think wine32, what is the safe way to install wine on sparky? -- I tried to follow these instructions here: https://wine.htmlvalidator.com/install-wine-on-debian-13.html -- but can't be followed, it will uninstalls many Sparky apps (?)...

Thanks for your advice

EDIT: sparkylinux-2025.03-x86_64-xfce (semi-rolling)

[AxL]

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I need to install wine and I think wine32, what is the safe way to install wine on sparky? --

EDIT: sparkylinux-2025.03-x86_64-xfce (semi-rolling)

  And, you have already tried, using apt and the official debian testing repositories:





Because, apparently you will be able to install it without any problem.









Cheers !! 

[ken]

Hi, I had no idea about this command line approach. By the way, is this only valid for Wine?. I'm doing this, but Wine doesn't appear anywhere. Do I need to do anything else?:

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keos@derp-x8664:~$ apt policy wine
wine:
  Instalados: (ninguno)
  Candidato:  9.0~repack-7
  Tabla de versión:
    9.0~repack-7 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main i386 Packages
keos@derp-x8664:~$ sudo apt install -s wine
[sudo] contraseña para keos:

Installing:                           
  wine

Installing dependencies:
  fonts-liberation              libgcc-s1:i386        libosmesa6
  fonts-liberation-sans-narrow  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin  libunistring5:i386
  fonts-wine                    libgpg-error-l10n    libwine
  gcc-14-base:i386              libidn2-0:i386        libz-mingw-w64
  libc6:i386                    libodbc2              wine64
  libcapi20-3t64                libodbccr2

Paquetes sugeridos:
  glibc-doc:i386      cups-bsd                  wine-binfmt
  locales:i386        ttf-mscorefonts-installer  dosbox
  libnss-nis:i386      q4wine                    exe-thumbnailer
  libnss-nisplus:i386  winbind                    | kio-extras
  odbc-postgresql      winetricks                wine64-preloader
  tdsodbc              playonlinux

Paquetes recomendados:
  wine32

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 18, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
Inst fonts-liberation (1:2.1.5-3 Debian:testing [all])
Inst fonts-liberation-sans-narrow (1:1.07.6-4 Debian:testing [all])
Inst fonts-wine (9.0~repack-7 Debian:testing [all])
Inst gcc-14-base:i386 (14.2.0-19 Debian:testing [i386])
Inst libgcc-s1:i386 (14.2.0-19 Debian:testing [i386]) []
Inst libc6:i386 (2.41-6 Debian:testing [i386])
Inst libcapi20-3t64 (1:3.27-3.2+b1 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin (2.42.12+dfsg-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst libgpg-error-l10n (1.51-3 Debian:testing [all])
Inst libunistring5:i386 (1.3-1 Debian:testing [i386])
Inst libidn2-0:i386 (2.3.8-2 Debian:testing [i386])
Inst libodbc2 (2.3.12-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst libodbccr2 (2.3.12-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst libosmesa6 (25.0.1-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst libz-mingw-w64 (1.3.1+dfsg-2 Debian:testing [all])
Inst libwine (9.0~repack-7 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst wine64 (9.0~repack-7 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst wine (9.0~repack-7 Debian:testing [all])
Conf fonts-liberation (1:2.1.5-3 Debian:testing [all])
Conf fonts-liberation-sans-narrow (1:1.07.6-4 Debian:testing [all])
Conf fonts-wine (9.0~repack-7 Debian:testing [all])
Conf gcc-14-base:i386 (14.2.0-19 Debian:testing [i386])
Conf libgcc-s1:i386 (14.2.0-19 Debian:testing [i386])
Conf libc6:i386 (2.41-6 Debian:testing [i386])
Conf libcapi20-3t64 (1:3.27-3.2+b1 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin (2.42.12+dfsg-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf libgpg-error-l10n (1.51-3 Debian:testing [all])
Conf libunistring5:i386 (1.3-1 Debian:testing [i386])
Conf libidn2-0:i386 (2.3.8-2 Debian:testing [i386])
Conf libodbc2 (2.3.12-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf libodbccr2 (2.3.12-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf libosmesa6 (25.0.1-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf libz-mingw-w64 (1.3.1+dfsg-2 Debian:testing [all])
Conf libwine (9.0~repack-7 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf wine64 (9.0~repack-7 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf wine (9.0~repack-7 Debian:testing [all])
keos@derp-x8664:~$

Packages are suggested here and wine32 is recommended, but wine is not installed on the system.

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keos@derp-x8664:~$ wine --version
bash: wine: orden no encontrada
keos@derp-x8664:~$ -- order not found

Thanks for comments

[AxL]

Hi, I had no idea about this command line approach. By the way, is this only valid for Wine?. I'm doing this, but Wine doesn't appear anywhere. Do I need to do anything else?
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Let's see, lad.

The 'install -s' option, simply performs a simulation. To check the availability, conflicts ... etc, of all the necessary packages.
 Nothing more.





So, do yourself a favor and check the documentation. And read the fantastic manual (RTFM).



And if you want to install wine for real use:

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sudo apt install wine


[....]  Thanks for comments

You're welcome !!








Cheers !!