im very new with wine

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Mage Hearto
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im very new with wine

Post by Mage Hearto »

So I have used wine before and got a game to load but the problem comes when I try to download a game with a zip file there are so many files and I don't know how to get the game to work I also get a pop up that says z:/home/my email/exe. could not open z:
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Re: im very new with wine

Post by jkfloris »

the problem comes when I try to download a game with a zip file. There are so many files and I don't know how to get the game to work.
After you extract the zip file, usually there is a setup.exe. (or an install.exe or a program_name.exe file.)
You can run this file with:

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wine setup.exe
I also get a pop up that says z:/home/my email/exe. could not open z:
What did you do when you got this message?
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