Ben's notes

Source: https://wine.htmlvalidator.com/install-wine-on-ubuntu-21.04.html

• Download latest RufzXP, self extracting installer version (exe) https://www.rufzxp.net/

• Verify 64-bit architecture. The following command should respond with “amd64”.

  dpkg --print-architecture

• See if 32-bit architecture is installed. The following command should respond with “i386”.

  dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

• If “i386” is not displayed, execute the following.

  sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

• Recheck with.

  dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

• Open a terminal and go to your Downloads directory.

  cd ~/Downloads

• Get and install the repository key.

  wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
  
  sudo -H gpg -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/winehq.key.gpg --dearmor winehq.key

• Add the repository.

  sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ $(lsb_release -sc) main"

• Update the package database.

  sudo apt update

• The next command will install Wine Stable. If you prefer Wine Development or Wine Staging, replace winehq-stable with either winehq-devel or with winehq-staging.

  sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

• Verify the installation succeeded

  wine --version

• The default Wine configuration prepares Wine as a Windows 7 environment, which is good for some older Windows apps, but many contemporary apps will be better matched to Windows 8.1 or Windows 10. In addition, other configuration options may be significant.

• To bring up Wine's configuration panel, open a Terminal window and execute winecfg. When prompted, set your preferred version of Windows and accept all offers to install Mono and Gecko.

• Depending on the version of Wine, Gecko may need to be installed twice (for 32-bit and for 64-bit) or not at all. (Wine 6.0.2 will install Gecko twice. Wine 6.17 and later will not ask to install Gecko, but a Windows app that needs Gecko will, during installation, prompt to be allowed to install it.)

  wine winecfg

• If you are creating custom Wine prefixes, this configuration must be repeated for each prefix.

• Just for fun, or to see Wine in action. Display a simple clock.

  wine clock

• Run Wine's builtin web browser.

  wine iexplore

• Install winetricks.

  sudo apt install winetricks

• Update winetricks.

  sudo winetricks --self-update

• Create a 32 bit prefix.

  WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-rufzxp" WINEARCH=win32 wine winecfg

• Install .NET 2.0.

  WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-rufzxp" winetricks dotnet20sp2

• Go to your Downloads directory.

  cd ~/Downloads

• Start the RufzXP installer.

  WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-rufzxp" wine rufzxp_fw2_0_setup_1_1_2.exe

• Allow launching using the desktop icon. Click right on the icon and select 'Allow launching'.
• Start RufzXP by double clicking the RufzXP icon.
• You can delete the lnk file, it is not needed.