Install Wine On Kali Linux |verified| Info

sudo update-alternatives --config wine Kali runs many tools as root. Wine is safer as a regular user:

# Create a non-root user useradd -m wineuser su - wineuser winecfg Remove Wine and Related Packages sudo apt remove --purge wine wine32 wine64 winehq-stable sudo apt autoremove Remove Wine Prefixes rm -rf ~/.wine rm -rf ~/wine_* Remove WineHQ Repository (if added) sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq-*.sources sudo apt update 10. Security Considerations on Kali Linux Using Wine on a penetration testing distribution requires caution:

winetricks dotnet48 # or install Mono sudo apt install mono-complete Fix: Reconfigure Wine alternatives: install wine on kali linux

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt update sudo apt install wine32 Solution: Install missing dependencies:

sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 Fix with winetricks: sudo update-alternatives --config wine Kali runs many tools

export WINEPREFIX=~/wine_app1 export WINEARCH=win32 # or win64 winecfg

ls ~/.wine* ~/wine_* Issue 1: Missing 32-bit Support Error: wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine'... /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory # Install

# Install sudo apt install wine wine32 wine64 winecfg Run app wine app.exe Fix fonts winetricks corefonts Create isolated prefix export WINEPREFIX=~/my_app && winecfg