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Wine
Wine is a tool that allows windows programs to be run on Linux.
It is worth noting that Wine does not use virtualization, it directly translates the calls a program is normally making to the Windows kernel into the language understood by the Linux kernel, and vice versa.
Install
Note: The wine package is not required by Bottles as it has its own versions of Wine, but if you're not installing the flatpak version, I recommend installing it as it gives access to the latest version of Wine to Bottles.
Arch-Based
sudo pacman -S wine
Debian/Mint/Ubuntu
As noted above, since bottles will be installed through flatpak there is no use in installing Wine here for bottles.
sudo apt install wine
Fedora
sudo dnf install wine
Bottles
There are a number of programs to manage Wine programs, personally I have found Bottles to be the best experience and what I am recommending here.
Install
Bottles is packaged on some distributions and is also available as a Flatpak.
You should be able to install bottles through whatever graphical software manager/store is on your system.
If that is not available or you just want to install via command-line, see below:
Flatpak (universal)
flatpak install com.usebottles.bottles
Arch-Based (AUR Package)
yay -S bottles
Debian/Mint/Ubuntu
Bottles is not packaged, use the Flatpak.
Fedora
sudo dnf install bottles