How to Install and Uninstall wine-binfmt Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

You can also install and uninstall the wine-binfmt on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "wine-binfmt" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install wine-binfmt on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "wine-binfmt" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall wine-binfmt on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wine-binfmt package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: wine-binfmt
Source: wine
Version: 8.0~repack-4
Installed-Size: 47
Maintainer: Debian Wine Party
Architecture: all
Depends: wine, binfmt-support | systemd
Description: Register Wine as the interpreter for Windows executables
Description-md5: 180f5df424ad09d109854aba9682b65d
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.winehq.org
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wine/wine-binfmt_8.0~repack-4_all.deb
Size: 22660
MD5sum: aeff4cec28753aa992ad5ce06d1ef06e
SHA256: b525e18f7ce3cf92bc4943f6bc02c5f8c6f8ea18cef475f7d3d6c821570db8bd