I've installed, uninstalled, tried stable, staging, YouTube tutorials and nothing seems to work in order to make Wine work.
After the winecfg stage, all videos and guides I have seen show Wine as an option when clicking Open with other application. However, I cannot find it.
I rebooted to check if there was something to do with that, but it wasn't. To be honest I don't want to mess something up.
This is what I see:
I click OK and everything should run smoothly, but I go to any .exe file and can't do much, except of using the archive manager.
Wine should be here, right?
I'd appreciate any help at all, even if the solution is setting up a VM.
Edit: Thanks, everyone for the help, I will use VirtualBox.
22 Answers
Wine is not an application, so it doesn't show up on the list of applications.
Wine is a compatibility layer. It's not a Windows emulator.
Reminder: Wine has never claimed to be 100% compatible with all Windows .exe files. Lots don't work at all. Others start (or stop) working after a version update. This is due to the Windows source code being unavailable to the Wine developers.
In the file manager (not the Desktop), try right-clicking on the .exe file in the file manager and choose “Run in Wine Compatibility Layer”
Or open a terminal and run wine explorer.
It seems to have some bad items in your sources list. If you are running Ubuntu, wine-stable shouldn't have a xenial version. The baseline version of wine-stable in 18.04 is 3.0-1ubuntu1. I recommend removing all ppas that have to do with wine and attempt installing it from the baseline repos.
