I was wondering what the two snap packages wine-platform-5-stable and wine-platform-runtime are. Are they full replacements for installing wine? Do they add to an existing WINE installation?
Some Windows programs are packaged as Snaps. These are the only ones that can use the packages you displayed.
Such as:
Notepad:
https://snapcraft.io/install/notepad3/ubuntu
When you install it, it installs the needed support libraries which are what you are displaying:
Code:
dmn@Sydney-vm:~$ sudo snap install notepad3
installs (showing new packages only here):
Code:
dmn@Sydney-vm:~$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
notepad3 5.20.915.1 137 latest/stable mmtrt -
wine-platform-5-stable 5.0.3 13 latest/stable mmtrt -
wine-platform-runtime v1.0 200 latest/stable mmtrt -
And it works!
Non-snap Windows programs work with the repository Wine installation.
There are more such Windows snap packages, but not many. A more interesting package would be the snap for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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