Step-by-step – WineHQ Installation in Linux Mint 20

GNU/Linux Mint 20 Installing Latest WineHQ – QuickStart Guide

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install the Latest WineHQ in Mint 20 Ulyana/Ulyssa/Uma/Una LTS GNU/Linux Desktops.

Especially relevant, as a possible and often better Alternative you could first see instead How to Install Wine on GNU/Linux.

And by this WineHQ Mint 20 Setup you’ll be able to Run Windows Software!

Because Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a Compatibility Layer capable of Running Windows Apps on several POSIX-compliant OSes systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.

Instead, of Simulating internal Windows Logic like a Virtual Machine or Emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls On-the-Fly, eliminating the Performance and Memory Penalties of other Methods and allowing you to Cleanly Integrate Windows Apps into your Desktop.

Especially relevant is how you dispose of 2 Branches of the Latest Wine Release: Stable and Development.

1. 1. Launching Terminal

   Open a Terminal Shell emulator window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands).

   
   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.