Wine version 5 Not Allowed?

[BarkingGhostar]

OK, I am running LM Sylvia and supposedly Wine v.5 supports it but the Software manager in LM doesn't present an Install button, but rather a grayed out Not Allowed.

Also, I noticed that removing the components through the Software Manager for Wine v.4 doesn't actually do a clean job. There's still crap sitting there.

 

[Steltek]

It wouldn't install on my Linux Mint 18.3 virtual machine via Software Manager, either. It is present in the software list (under WINE Stable), but when I tried to install it all it would do is present a list of software that would be updated. After okaying this, it just wouldn't do anything else.

According to my old notes, here are the steps that I previously had to go through to get it to install v5.01 manually via a Terminal session on LM 18.3.

1) Manually remove any existing WINE via following commands in Terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge wine wine-*
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
rm -rf ~/.wine/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/wine*

2) Install WINE via following commands in Terminal:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

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

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

3) Check installed version in Terminal - should come back with 5.01 when following command is entered:

wine --version

You could also probably download the most recent version of PlayOnLinux from their website (the version in Software Manager is too old) and use the option under its tools menu to facilitate installation of Wine 5.0 as well. If you do this, if you don't already have XTerm installed you will need it as well (the version in Software Manager will work just fine) as PlayOnLinux requires it.