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Hello there fellow mIRC lovers! Firstly, mIRC is native to Windows operating system only, so on this page will show you how to set up a Wine environment to allow yourself to run windows applications, such as mIRC, and get the best user experience. Let’s make sure we have everything we need from a terminal.

On default Ubuntu desktop install, click the ::: button on the left and type Terminal in the software search that pops up. Click on it to open it.

You’re now in a terminal window, follow these instructions:

Install 32bit architecture (mIRC is a 32bit application), many applications are still 32bit so this is good to have when running Windows programs on our Ubuntu Shell.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Download and add the repository key:

wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

Add the repository:

version:	command:
Ubuntu 20.04	sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main'
Ubuntu 18.04 Linux Mint 19.x	sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'
Ubuntu 16.04 Linux Mint 18.x	sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'

Update packages:

sudo apt update

Then install wine

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Open up Firefox within your shell and head to mIRC.com

Download the mIRC Installer from the main page.

When Download is Finished, open the mIRC setup with Mono Runtime and install.

If you Save File, simply click your Downloads and right-click mIRC download, select Open Containing Folder, and open mIRC with Wine from there.

mIRC is now freshly installed on your shell and is available to you from your applications list.

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