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I am trying to install Wine on Debian 8 using these instructions:

 sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

This works.

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

This works.

deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ JESSIE  main

This gives me:

-su: deb: command not found

Then, if I try to finish install with:

sudo apt-get install winehq-devel

I get:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package winehq-devel

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The deb line isn't a command, it's a configuration line you need to add, either to /etc/apt/sources.list, or better, to a new file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d (say /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list. Once you've done that,

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install winehq-devel

should work.

Instead of doing that though, you could install the Debian-maintained package. To get a recent version of Wine, add deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main to /etc/apt/sources.list, then run

sudo apt-get update

followed by either

sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install wine

for the current stable release, 1.8.4 as of October 2016, or

sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install wine-development

for the latest development release (after it's migrated to Debian testing), 1.9.19 as of October 2016.

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  • How do I add the config line (the first thing you said?)
    – user147855
    Dec 19, 2015 at 20:23
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    With an editor, or you can run echo deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ jessie main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list from the command line.
    – Stephen Kitt
    Dec 19, 2015 at 21:48
  • I followed above instructions in this order: your comment, then your answer. With "sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install wine-development" I get "Reading package lists... Error! E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list (dist parse) E: The list of sources could not be read. E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. root@localhost:~# sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install wine-development Reading package lists... Done E: The value 'jessie-backports' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources"
    – user147855
    Dec 20, 2015 at 21:01
  • Had to make separate comment for this due to char limit, thanks for your help so far!
    – user147855
    Dec 20, 2015 at 21:02
  • That error message means your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list file is incorrect. You need to correct it so that it says deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ jessie main (or just use the command I gave, which will overwrite the file with the correct contents).
    – Stephen Kitt
    Dec 20, 2015 at 21:58

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