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What is your end goal? There are a lot of different ways to install Wine for different purposes.
If it's just to run a arbitrary binary, I use Heroic and add it as a non-Epic/Amazon game. Different Wine/Proton versions can be downloaded in the settings.
You can also add them to Steam as non-steam game and enable compatibility mode in the settings.
^^ Heroic worked really well for me as well. I used it to get Affinity working. (Apart from using it for Epic Games and GOG ofc.)