October 17, 2025
Tested with Zorin OS 18 Core
Expected to work with all versions of Zorin 18
This document installs Wine Stable 10.0. How more recent versions of Wine may be installed is described below.
From Zorin Software Manager:
Run Windows apps in Zorin OS with Wine and Bottles
This package [Windows App Support] installs the Wine compatibility layer as well as Bottles. Wine allows you to run many Windows apps inside Zorin OS as if they are native apps. Bottles makes it easier to install and manage Windows apps & games and applies patches to Wine in order to make individual Windows apps more compatible with Zorin OS and run better.
Even if the version of Wine that is installed is not the latest version, this may be the best option for most people (as of this writing, Windows App Support installs Wine Stable 10.0, while the current versions are Wine Stable 10.0 and Wine Development 10.16).
For that reason, how to install Windows App Support is described in this document.
For those who must have a more recent version of Wine, the procedure for Installing Wine in Ubuntu 24.04
(upon which Zorin 18 is based) works very well and installs the latest version of Wine Stable, Wine Development, or Wine Staging.
To install Windows App Support:
in the lower left corner of the desktop.Wine is a Terminal application, so open a Terminal window and execute
$ wine --version
One of the tests suggested below will fail because Wine Gecko is not installed. To correct this, Wine Gecko can be installed manually, as described in How to Manually Install Wine Mono and Wine Gecko.
For more information, see the appendix at the end of this document, which describes Wine Mono and Wine Gecko.
The information that follows focuses on Wine as a Terminal application. Bottles are beyond the scope of this document, and how to use them is not discussed..
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