Install Wine 2.4 in Linux Ubuntu 18.04

In essence, if you want to run Windows applications on Linux Mint, Ubuntu or similar distributions you can use Wine to run, although not all applications running Windows can run on Linux or other Gnu / Linux operating systems.

source:
https://www.winehq.org/ and https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

Steps to installing Wine:
1. Open your Terminal
type:
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

2. Add the ppa wine repository from official winehq with the command below
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa: wine-builds

don't forget to press enter

3. Update and upgrade your linux system by entering the command below

  $ sudo apt update

make sure "All packages are up to date", if there are packages that need to be upgraded please enter the command:
$ sudo apt dist-upgrade

4. After everything is finished now you just have to install wine according to your taste of wine giving you two choices of versions, namely "Staging branch" and "Development branch", if you choose staging branch then you choose the stable version of wine now you can enter the command

$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging
    or
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

5. After you have finished installing wine you can configure or check the wine configuration by opening "winecfg", open winecfg through the terminal with the command

    $ winecfg

 

then the wine configuration screen will appear automatically and download the wine dependent like monolib and .NET automatically just as you click install

if it is in accordance with your wishes, click apply then ok, then your wine is installed and you can run Windows applications on Linux like this picture.