How to run Roon on Wine with Ubuntu 24.10

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  • Installing Wine 9.0 On Ubuntu 24.10 #ubuntu

  • sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key -
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/oracular/winehq-oracular.sources
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable --yes
sudo apt install wine32:i386 --yes

  • Installing Roon on Wine

  • Download archive from GitHub - RoPieee/roon-on-wine: Running Roon with Wine on Linux.
  • Extract the archive.
  • sudo apt install winetricks wget --yes
cd ~/Downloads/roon-on-wine-master/
./install.sh
./start_my_roon_instance.sh
  • The desktop icons do not work, so use the menu shortcut.
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  • Add the icon

  • cp ~/Downloads/roon-on-wine-master/icons/256x256/roon-on-wine.png ~/.local/share/icons
nano ~/.local/share/applications/roon-on-wine.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Roon
# Substitute <username> with your Ubuntu user ID, i.e. echo $USER
Exec=/home/<username>/start_my_roon_instance.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=roon-on-wine.png
StartupWMClass=roon.exe
Categories=Music
Keywords=roon;music;player
  • Icon better suited to GNOME.

roon-on-wine

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