Downloading, installing and running .exe programs using Wine

[aaronej]

I am a Peace Corps volunteer in Chadiza, Zambia and I am in somewhat of a predicament which is that my windows operating system crashed. Fortunately I had a CD ISO of Fedora 10 I installed onto some flash drives, however I need to use my cell phone to access the internet and the software to do this is only available via an .exe program. Therefore I have a questions two, the first of which is does Fedora 10 come with any version of wine or other .exe emulators (alright I know wine is not considered an emulator) and if so how do you use it to install programs. The second is, how does one downloads a compiled binary of wine for Fedora and is it possible to do this using a windows system. I would do more searching and try downloading more things however currently the only way I can do this is to use a pay-by-minute computer lab where the speed is very low. I don’t know Linux at all so step by step instructions from the very beginning would be much appreciated. Thanks for any help you can give.

[austin987]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM, aaronej <[email protected]> wrote:

I am a Peace Corps volunteer in Chadiza, Zambia and I am in somewhat of a predicament which is that my windows operating system crashed.  Fortunately I had a CD ISO of Fedora 10 I installed onto some flash drives, however I need to use my cell phone to access the internet and the software to do this is only available via an .exe program.  Therefore I have a questions two, the first of which is does Fedora 10 come with any version of wine or other .exe emulators (alright I know wine is not considered an emulator) and if so how do you use it to install programs.  The second is, how does one downloads a compiled binary of wine for Fedora and is it possible to do this using a windows system.  I would do more searching and try downloading more things however currently the only way I can do this is to use a pay-by-minute computer lab where the speed is very low.  I don’t know Linux at all so step by step instructions from the very beginning would be much appreciated.  Thanks for any help you can give.

I don't think Fedora 10 comes with wine by default. You may be able to
download the RPMs from a Fedora mirror ( see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AndreasBierfert/Wine), but if it has any
external dependencies, you'd be out of luck.

However, the program you need to access the internet likely installs a
driver, which won't work under wine.

Fedora may have a native program, but that depends on your cell phone
provider (unlikely).

Not the news you wanted, but hope that helps.

--
-Austin

[vitamin]

I need to use my cell phone to access the internet

Wine won't help you here. You need to use programs available from your distribution (Fedora) for this. Which exact programs - I don't know and this (Wine forum) is the wrong place to ask.

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 15:19 -0500, aaronej wrote:

I am a Peace Corps volunteer in Chadiza, Zambia and I am in somewhat
of a predicament which is that my windows operating system crashed.
Fortunately I had a CD ISO of Fedora 10 I installed onto some flash
drives, however I need to use my cell phone to access the internet and
the software to do this is only available via an .exe program.

Wine is the the Fedora 'extras' repository so you can install it with
Fedora's package installer, which will take care of dependencies by
automatically downloading any additional packages that Wine needs. You
do, however, need an online conection capable of downloading several MB
of compressed data.

I normally use the command line form of the package installer, so here's
how to do it from the command line:

1) Login as root
2) Start a terminal to get a command line
(its usually under System tools)
3) Run the command:

yum install wine

Yum will search for and list the packages you need and
ask if you want to download them. Answer 'yes'. Wait while
they get downloaded, checked and installed.
4) When yum has finished type 'exit' to close the terminal session
5) Log out of root
6) Login as the user you'll run Wine from and
follow the Wine setup directions.


Martin

[vitamin]

1) Login as root
2) Start a terminal to get a command line
(its usually under System tools)
3) Run the command:

yum install wine

Or all that in a single line (from your normal user account):

Code: Select all

sudo yum install wine

[aaronej]

I am getting a "Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit..." message that seems to be a never ending loop