How to Install and Setup EAC to Make Flawless Rips on Linux
Running EAC in Wine is currently the only way to get 100% logs on Linux. Ripping with a virtual drive, from a virtual machine (such as VirtualBox or VMWare) will not produce verifiable logs. Any torrents ripped from inside a virtual machine will have their logs removed from the site, and the torrent will be equivalent to logless. (An exception applies if using a USB disc drive through a virtual machine, as these have their names correctly displayed on logs. Please double check such logs before uploading though, and also make sure that EAC is set up accordingly to the wiki articles linked at the bottom of the page to avoid deductions for incorrect rip settings.)
These directions should work under any flavor of Linux that runs Wine. This guide was written with Debian testing in mind, but the only things which should differ between distributions are the package manager commands - please adapt them to the distro you're running.
Install Wine
The first step is to install Wine.
It is highly recommended to use Wine 4.6 or newer, since it is the first version which enables plugin support in EAC. This will allow you to produce logs which include the CUETools report for your rip.
Via your distribution's package manager
You should use your distribution's packages if it provides them. However, the Wine project provides builds for a few distributions, so you may choose to use their builds if the package in your distribution is older or unusable for any other reasons. At the time of writing, Debian provides version 4.0 in their repositories - which is a little too old for this particular use case due to the reason mentioned above. Luckily, installing the package from the Wine repositories can be done with just a few commands:
wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_Testing_standard/amd64/libfaudio0_19.04-0~buster_amd64.deb wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_Testing_standard/i386/libfaudio0_19.04-0~buster_i386.deb sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo dpkg -i libfaudio0_19.04-0~buster_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i libfaudio0_19.04-0~buster_i386.deb wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add echo 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ testing main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list >/dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-devel winetricks