msiexec-stable command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

msiexec-stable: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: msiexec-stable: command not found

Solutions to msiexec-stable: command not found

How To Fix msiexec-stable: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu msiexec-stable is provided by wine package.

wine is:

Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation.

This package provides essential wrappers and convenience tools for the standard Wine components. It also employs the Debian alternatives system to provide the usual command names, e.g. “wine” instead of “wine-stable”.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install wine

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install wine.

sudo apt -y install wine

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install wine

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix msiexec-stable command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.