Have you been trying to figure out the easiest way to install Wine on
Kali Linux and Debian 8/9?. This guide will show you how to get wine
working on Kali Linux. It’s also essential for running i386 packages on
an amd64 version of Kali Linux or Debian Distribution
Wine enables you to run Windows Applications on a Linux box. It’s just a Windows emulator on top of Linux. Wine works on Linux, FreeBSD, UnixWare NetBSD, SCO OpenServer 5 and Solaris hence you can smoothly run Windows applications on these systems.
Typically you’ll need the following to run wine
To install wine. We’ll first enable maltiarch, then update the system and finally install wine. The commands to accomplish that are as shown below.

Wine enables you to run Windows Applications on a Linux box. It’s just a Windows emulator on top of Linux. Wine works on Linux, FreeBSD, UnixWare NetBSD, SCO OpenServer 5 and Solaris hence you can smoothly run Windows applications on these systems.
Typically you’ll need the following to run wine
- The compiled Wine binary
- A properly configured wine.conf and wine.sym
- An installed and working X Window system
- Some MS Windows programs to test
Install Wine on Kali Linux
If you type the commandOn you Kali Linux machine, you’ll get the following dialog box.$ wine

To install wine. We’ll first enable maltiarch, then update the system and finally install wine. The commands to accomplish that are as shown below.
It will download the packages and install them. After finishing the installation, check again to confirm that the wine has been installed successfully. Typesudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine:i386 sudo apt-get install wine-bin:i386
wine --versionIf you want an all in one command, here it is.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update && apt-get install wine-bin:i386

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