The new development release Wine 4.9 was released today. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04.

Wine 4.9 release highlights:

• Initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.
• Support for building 16-bit modules in PE format.
• A lot of code moved to the new KernelBase DLL.
• Various game controller fixes.
• Use higher performance system clocks if available.
• Various bug fixes.

How to Install Wine 4.9 in Ubuntu:

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for ‘terminal’ from app menu. When it opens, run following commands to download and install the key:

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key && sudo apt-key add winehq.key

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.

2. Then add Wine repository for Ubuntu 19.04:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ disco main'

For other Ubuntu releases, replace disco in the code with:

• bionic for Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 19.x
• cosmic for Ubuntu 18.10.
• xenial for Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18.x

3. Install unmet dependence: faudio

The wine devel package requires libfaudio0 library which is not available in Ubuntu repositories.

As a workaround, run command to add the third-party PPA, which offers the packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 19.04.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport

4. Finally run command to install Wine 4.9, which will automatically install the required libfaudio0 libraries.

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-devel

Once installed, run winecfg to bring up the configuration window and check Wine version.

Uninstall:

Open Software & Updates and navigate to Other Software tab. Then remove the PPA, and Wine apt repository lines.

To remove Wine devel package, run command:

sudo apt remove --auto-remove winehq-devel