For the latest version. Follow these instructions for your distro https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

You’ll also want Winetricks

There’s a GUI applications for this. Just run winecfg.

With 4k monitors, the applications will be tiny. Go to the Graphics tab and increase the Screen resolution dpi value.

Try dxvk

1. Create a new wine prefix for the program that doesn’t work properly (see Program Installation below) and install it.
2. Download a release from https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk and follow the instructions in the README. Basically, you will copy some DLLs from the release to the WINEPREFIX location and add DLL overrides using wineconfig
3. There are drivers and additional dependencies that might be needed. See also
   • https://linuxconfig.org/improve-your-wine-gaming-on-linux-with-dxvk
   • https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/issues/258
4. If this is a VST plug, add the plugin location using yabridgectl add and run ~yabridgectl sync (See VST Plugins section below)

You can have multiple installation directories. For example, you have run a 32bit application on a 64bit system by doing something like this:

export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-someapp/
export WINEARCH="win32"
wineboot

WINEPREFIX is the directory. See also WINEPREFIX docs. WINEARCH sets the system architecture

• win32 or win64

This will create a .wine-someapp/ directory. With the env vars set, all subsequent wine commands will use that directory and architecture. So, now you can do wine someapp_installer.exe. Then wine ".wine-someapp/drive_c/Program Files/someapp/someapp.exe"

The env vars will only be set for that terminal sessions. For subsequent terminal sessions, they need to be reset or used inline when running the command to start the app.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-someapp WINEARCH="win32" wine ~/.wine-someapp/drive_c/Program\ Files/someapp/someapp.exe

Installing will create desktop shortcuts. Right click on it and choose “Allow Launching” to make it clickable.

You can use the desktop shortcut created on install, or run it from a terminal. First, find out where the program was installed in the “windows” directory. Then call wine with that path:

wine "c:\Program Files\Some App\Some Executable.exe"

Just run wine uninstaller.

See also https://github.com/brendaningram/linux-audio-setup-scripts

• install yabridge (see also https://github.com/brendaningram/linux-audio-setup-scripts)

  wget -O yabridge.tar.gz https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/releases/download/5.0.3/yabridge-5.0.3.tar.gz
  mkdir -p ~/.local/share
  tar -C ~/.local/share -xavf yabridge.tar.gz
  rm yabridge.tar.gz
  

• Add yabridge to your path

• Create the conventional VST plugin paths on Wine’s “C” drive

  mkdir -p "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins"
  mkdir -p "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST2"
  mkdir -p "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST3"
  

• Add those same paths to yabridge

  yabridgectl add "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins"
  yabridgectl add "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST2"
  yabridgectl add "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST3"
  

• When you download a VST plugin exe file, right click and run the installer with Wine. Make sure it gets installed in one of the paths above.
• If it’s just a DLL file, you should just be able to move it to one of the paths above.
• Sync yabridge yabridgectl sync
• Check yabridge status yabridgectl status to verify.
• The plugin should now be usable in certain DAWs (eg, Reaper).

Run the install again. It will overwrite the existing files. Then run yabridgectl sync

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