How to install and use Wine 4.0.1 on Zorin 15


Today we are looking at how to install Wine Stable on Zorin 15.  At the time of writing this blog, it is version 4.0.1, but this method will give you the latest version and keep you up to date with Wine via your system updates.

After installing Wine we run a command called winecfg that will install Wine mono and gecko packages.

Lastly, we take a Windows app, which I already downloaded, and we install it with Wine on Zorin and then we reboot our system so that the app will appear in the system menu.  Enjoy!

Please take note that not all Windows Applications works on Linux yet.

Ps.  Since the release of Wine 5.0, the installation of Wine has changed, we updated the commands in this tutorial, and here is an updated video guide.

Commands Used:
1) sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
2) wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
3) sudo apt-key add winehq.key

4) sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys DFA175A75104960E
5) sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main' 
6) sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/ ./'
7) sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
8) winecfg


Installation Guide is based on this:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

Release Notes:
https://www.winehq.org/news/2019051501

Official Site:
https://www.winehq.org/

Windows App I used in the video:
https://www.fotor.com/windows/index.html

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