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m. WINE
WINE used to be shipped with Zorin OS but is no longer present due to Zorin’s move into the Enterprise sector. For those who want to install Wine you are best installing the latest using Synaptic Package Manager as it holds the latest version, version 4 – the software channel holds 3 and that version had major issues in Zorin OS 12. After you have installed WINE you may want to add a simple package just so that you get WINE showing correctly in the Zorin menu and also to ensure that winecfg (WINE configuration interface) gets setup.
For me I chose to install the Windows .exe file of 7-Zip from here: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
I would advise that you only install 32-bit Windows applications as I found there to be issues with 64-bit apps not running in WINE. When you install WINE for the first time you will get about 3 notifications – 1 to install monoruntime and 2 instances of gecko packages.
If you are wanting to install a game that does not require the CD to be present, my best advice to you is to open ‘Computer’ to view the nametag given by the game supplier, e.g., Homeworld was named ‘NEW’ (from memory) so you create a folder within the fake C:\ drive with the same name. Next, copy the entire contents of the game CD into the newly created folder. After this, look for any .exe or ‘setup’ files within the newly created directory with the copied files and right-click each one to select ‘Properties’ then select the ‘Permissions’ tab and then check mark the last option of allowing the .exe to run as a Program.
If the CD/DVD needs to be present whilst playing, this is where gCDEmu comes into it’s own for which I have already given instructions on how to use above.