Install and Uninstall (remove) Amazon Workspaces on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit) Wine (Wine64)

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sudo apt-get --purge remove wine 

sudo apt-get purge wine* ; sudo dpkg --purge wine*
sudo apt-get purge wine64 ; sudo dpkg --purge wine64
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

cd $HOME
rm -r .wine
rm .config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -r .local/share/applications/wine
rm .local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm .local/share/icons/????_*.xpm

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1. Download the Windows .MSI installer from: https://clients.amazonworkspaces.com/

At time of this post, the Amazon WorkSpaces Client was:
Version: 2.4.7.804
Updated: 6/7/2018

Information about the Ubuntu release:

lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

Perform a quick package update check:

sudo apt update

Install wine:

sudo apt install wine64
wine64 --version
wine-3.0 (Ubuntu 3.0-1ubuntu1)

Install the Amazon WorkSpaces MSI file into the default .wine prefix:

wine64 msiexec /i ~/Downloads/Amazon+WorkSpaces.msi

Afterwards, remove a file that causes an application crash. (Replacing “username” with your account’s username and “.wine” if you used a different prefix):

rm /home/username/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Amazon\ Web\ Services\,\ Inc/Amazon\ WorkSpaces/vchan_plugins/pcoip_vchan_remoteprintclient.dll

Start the Amazon WorkSpaces client and enjoy that sweet AWS cloud WorkSpace!