WineHQ on Ubuntu 19.10 – Installation Guide

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I have been following wine's steps to install winehq, but despite I've seem to be done all I can, I keep getting this error:

The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu eoan Release' does not have a Release file.
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu eoan Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

If anybody could shed a light as to where I should go from here, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.

Here is the updated output, after I've tried the suggestions below:

antonio@mclinux:~$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 
antonio@mclinux:~$ wget -nc -qO- https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -
OK
antonio@mclinux:~$ sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ eoan main'
Hit:1 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/unstable/ubuntu eoan InRelease
Hit:3 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates InRelease    
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-security InRelease                                
Hit:5 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-backports InRelease                             
Ign:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu eoan InRelease                          
Hit:7 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu eoan InRelease            
Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu eoan Release      
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu eoan Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Could you help me see what's going on?

Cheers,

Best Answer

does not have a release file indicate the repository has no support for your Ubuntu release, in this case it's Ubuntu Eoan → 19.10.

You have added deprecated/outdated repository, the developer has put up an announcement regarding this issue on the WineHQ mailing list https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2017-March/117104.html.

You have to follow the new guide for installing Wine, luckily the Wine team has made this easy by posting a complete guide on their site— which you can uses with your 19.10.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 
wget -nc -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/ eoan main'

Then install the packages.

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging

_{According to https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/eoan/main/binary-amd64/, the only available version is: staging and devel}

UPDATE

The new repo works fine, it's just you haven't removed old obsolete repo which you added before.

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:wine/wine-builds
sudo apt update

Now there should not be any error.

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18.04 has been out for less than a week. As such, many developers haven't caught up to the new release yet. To that end, WineHQ has a bug for this already requesting 18.04 packaging in their repository.

There is Wine 3.0 in the Ubuntu repositories, you can use that in the interim by executing sudo apt install wine. Once the upstream WineHQ repositories catch up you can use them.

Once that time is available, you can follow the instructions for installing from their repos. From their instructions page are the instructions to follow at that time:

If you have previously installed a Wine package from another repository, please remove it and any packages that depend on it (e.g., wine-mono, wine-gecko, winetricks) before attempting to install the WineHQ packages, as they may cause dependency conflicts.

If your system is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture (if you haven't already):
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sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
Update packages:
sudo apt-get update
Then install one of the following packages:

Stable Branch:
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable
Development Branch:
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
Staging Branch:
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging
If apt-get complains about missing dependencies, install them, then repeat the last two steps (update and install).

Staging isn't really used anymore, so use either Stable or Devel.

There will be differences though:

Files are installed to /opt/wine-devel.

Menu items are not created for Wine's builtin programs (winecfg, etc.), and if you are upgrading from a distro package that had added them, they will be removed. You can recreate them yourself using your menu editor.

Binfmt_misc registration is not added. Consult your distro's documentation for update-binfmts if you wish to do this manually.

WineHQ does not at present package wine-gecko or wine-mono. When creating a new wine prefix, you will be asked if you want to download those components. For best compatibility, it is recommended to click Yes here. If the download doesn't work for you, please follow the instructions on the Gecko and Mono wiki pages to install them manually.

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Do 1:

 sudo apt-add-repository --remove 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Ubuntu_18.10_standard ./'

Do 2:

 wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key

 sudo apt-key add Release.key

 sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/

3:apt-get update

4:Then install your preferred wine

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging

Tell me if it works!

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UPDATE

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