Unable to install Wine for Ubuntu 16.04

Question

I tried sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel but it shows:

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

Answer 1

This is because the development version of Wine is not in the vanilla repository (for obvious reason — it is unstable), you have to add its PPA. Quoting the original page:

Add the repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds

Update packages list:

sudo apt-get update

Then install (example for the development branch):

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel