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When attempting to install Wine, Terminal answers about the wrong path:

E: Unable to locate package winehq-stable

BUT
it was installed:

anatoly@anatoly-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Reading package lists... Done

Please how to tell Terminal to go to its place?

anatoly@anatoly-desktop:~$ wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key

--2019-02-28 11:00:11--  https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key

Resolving dl.winehq.org (dl.winehq.org)... 151.101.14.217

Connecting to dl.winehq.org (dl.winehq.org)|151.101.14.217|:443... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 3220 (3.1K) [application/pgp-keys]

Saving to: ‘winehq.key’



winehq.key                 100%[========================================>]   3.14K  --.-KB/s    in 0s      



2019-02-28 11:00:12 (13.4 MB/s) - ‘winehq.key’ saved [3220/3220]



anatoly@anatoly-desktop:~$ sudo apt-key add winehq.key

[sudo] password for anatoly: 

OK

anatoly@anatoly-desktop:~$ sudo apt update

Hit:1 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease

Hit:2 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease

Hit:3 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease

Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease

Reading package lists... Done                     

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

270 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

anatoly@anatoly-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package winehq-stable

anatoly@anatoly-desktop:~$ 

You seem to have skipped the apt-add-repository command. You only added the key of the WineHQ repository as trusted (apt-key add) but haven’t added the repository itself, so APT is still unable to find the package winehq-stable which resides in this repository. In the WineHQ guide, the relevant command is listed in a table and not formatted as code – which might be misleading.

According to your apt update output, your Ubuntu version is 18.04 (Bionic), so running this should be the right option for you¹:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'

After this, you should be ready to run:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

BUT it was installed:

anatoly@anatoly-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Reading package lists... Done

Not yet… The lines

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

inform you about the progress in loading the package database. However, this procedure finished with an error (E:) in your case and the package has not been installed.

¹ You could also use an universal version of the apt-add-repository command which fills in your release name automatically:

sudo apt-add-repository "deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ $(lsb_release -c | cut -f2) main"