Problem with Wine repository (and repositories in general)

**markblackrain** · February 20th, 2021

Hello there. I'm new to Ubuntu and i'm having trouble with the repository while installing Wine. I'm using Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla.
I already installed Wine with sudo apt install wine (but it doesn't even appear in applications) so i followed a tutorial and i enabled 32 bit architecture with:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

then i tried to download and add the repository key with:

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key

Note: This lines were used from https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

BUT this message appears:

Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8)).

What can I do to solve this problem?

**CatKiller** · February 20th, 2021

Originally Posted by markblackrain

Hello there. I'm new to Ubuntu... I'm using Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla.

I would generally recommend that new users stick to the LTS releases rather than using the guinea pig interim releases. The important stuff gets backported to the LTS releases.

I already installed Wine with sudo apt install wine (but it doesn't even appear in applications)

It wouldn't. It's a program for running other programs, rather than something that you run standalone. It doesn't get a launcher. By default it doesn't get the other handy menu entries (for things like the right click context menus) either. If you want a thing to launch so that you can manage those applications that run through Wine, Lutris is a good choice.

What can I do to solve this problem?

There's nothing there that suggests that you have a problem. It's a warning message, not an error message, so the key likely successfully got added. At some point the instructions will be updated to show whatever the new-fangled method is instead.