Wine Does Not Work At All for me

Solution 1:

is it just not compatible with ubuntu 20.04?

It is compatible with Ubuntu 20.04. You can have a working wine install on Ubuntu 20.04 as evidenced by these screenshots.

This shows wine 5.0 running on a 20.04 Ubuntu MATE system.

This shows the reason for the wine install, an old Windows birding app running under wine.

To install wine on this system, I issued the single command sudo apt install wine-stable. This resulted in the installation of a lot of packages.

Solution 2:

Ok. I finally seem to have this working. :) The terminal is still throwing a few errors after running winecfg but it seems to actually be installed and install and run my windows programs now. The current stable version is 6.0.1. On Ubuntu 20.04, the correct install procedure is reasonably involved and is as follows:

You must uninstall wine and all other wine related apps first. Ie. Wine tricks etc.

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 
$ wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
$ sudo apt-key add winehq.key
$ sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main'
$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

For other versions of Ubuntu, see official instructions at this link: https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu.

A big thankyou to those people who actually genuinely tried to help me. I hope I can return the favour some day. :)