How can I use .exe applications in Ubuntu Linux?
Thursday, May 26th, 2011 at
12:10
I have downloaded Wine (I don’t want to pay for anything) but I still get an error when I try to run .exe applications in Ubuntu. Help?
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These links should help you get wine working in ubuntu.
Make sure that you give the .exe files the rights to execute as programs.
Right-click the exe file, go to properties and tick on the "allow to run as a program" part (can’t remember what the exact wording was).
Also, move the installer exe files into the Wine folder (it is a hidden dot file in your home directory, you can hide/unhide the hidden dot files with ctrl+h in the Nautilus file manager). Then you should be able to just double click them and do the usual Windows installer stuff.
Using Wine on Ubuntu
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/wine
A list of Windows apps. that work using Wine can be found on the Wine Application Database (AppDB)
http://appdb.winehq.org/
Wine will not run all windows applications and it should be considered somewhat of a compromise rather than an absolute solution
LUg.
Try right click and hit "open with wine loader" I’m not sure haven’t used wine in forever and never used Ubuntu but Ubuntu might not have it run in wine by default. Also, did you compile from source or get it from a repo manager and what version of wine is it? Also version of Ubuntu would help.