now that i have downloaded

[rhoxie1]

I am new to linux I am running Ubuntu I downloaded the program (wine) and extracted it, now what

Thanks
Rick

[austin987]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:10 PM, rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote:

I am new to linux I am running Ubuntu I downloaded the program (wine) and extracted it, now what

Did you download the source or the .deb package? If source, you'd need
to compile it. If .deb, install with $ sudo dpkg -i wine*.deb

From there, just use:
$ wine setup.exe

to install your applications, and:

$ wine yourapp.exe

to run them.

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-Austin

[rhoxie1]

Ok how do I know which package I downloaded I hope I not over my head with this so far I like linux but when you talk deb or compile it scares me

Rick

[austin987]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:27 PM, rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote:

Ok how do I know which package I downloaded I hope I not over my head with this so far I like linux but when you talk deb or compile it scares me

What file did you download?

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-Austin

[rhoxie1]

wine-1.1.18.tar.bz2 I got it from sourceforge.net

[austin987]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:59 PM, rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote:

wine-1.1.18.tar.bz2 I got it from sourceforge.net

That's the source code. You'd probably have an easier time just using
the precompiled binary:
http://winehq.org/download

For Ubuntu:
http://winehq.org/download/deb

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-Austin

[James Mckenzie]

rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote on April 7th:

Ok how do I know which package I downloaded I hope I not over my head with this so far I like
linux but when you talk deb or compile it scares me

If you downloaded a .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz file, this is source code and must be built into an executable package, commonly called configuring and compiling. If you downloaded a .rpm file, you downloaded a prebuilt package for RedHat/CentOS/Fedora Linux distributions. If you downloaded a .deb file, you downloaded a prebuilt package for Debian type Linux distributions. There are prebuilt packages for Ubuntu, OpenSuse and other Linux distributions as well. Installing them is somewhat easier than 'rolling your own' but may introduce problems as the build may not take into account packages that you did not install.

I would follow Austing English's advice and get the file from the WineHQ server and install it.

James McKenzie

[rhoxie1]

Yeah I got it installed so now how do I get a windows program to run

Thanks for the help

[austin987]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:50 PM, rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote:

Yeah I got it installed so now how do I get a windows program to run

If you've got the setup.exe file, you should be able to just double
click it in your window manager and have it come up.

If it doesn't work right, try running it in a terminal to see the debug output:
$ wine setup.exe

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-Austin

[rhoxie1]

man I do appreciate your help ok run I ran that command line this what it says
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\setup.exe": Module not found
again thanks for the help I really want this to work so I don't have to mess with window as much

Rick

[austin987]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:22 PM, rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote:

man I do appreciate your help ok run I ran that command line this what it says
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\setup.exe": Module not found
 again thanks for the help I really want this to work so I don't have to mess with window as much

Change that to be the setup file for whatever program you want to
run...Be sure to 'cd' to its directory first.

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-Austin

[jm]

you have to either 'cd' into the directory where the program you want
to run is located, or supply the full or relative pathway to that file
as an argument to wine so it knows where to find the program and
execute it.

ie.
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/<rest of path where program is>
wine <program name>

or
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/<rest of path where program is>program_name

either of these should allow the program to run if it's going to


On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:22 PM, rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote:

man I do appreciate your help ok run I ran that command line this what it says
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\setup.exe": Module not found
 again thanks for the help I really want this to work so I don't have to mess with window as much

Rick

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[austin987]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:27 PM, jm <[email protected]> wrote:

you have to either 'cd' into the directory where the program you want
to run is located, or supply the full or relative pathway to that file
as an argument to wine so it knows where to find the program and
execute it.

ie.
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/<rest of path where program is>
wine <program name>

Right.

or
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/<rest of path where program is>program_name

Wrong. Don't do this.

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-Austin

P.S. Please bottom post on wine mailing lists.

[rhoxie1]

I am sorry I am lost I understand the double click exe but iam really lost with the rest I really don't understand the command line
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/<rest of path where program is>
wine <program name>
again thanks for the help

Rick

[austin987]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:49 PM, rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote:

What program are you trying to install?

Where is it located?

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-Austin

[rhoxie1]

ok it is on a CD and it is called DVD Decrypter

rick

[austin987]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote:

ok it is on a CD and it is called DVD Decrypter

Put it in your cd drive.

Then navigate to /media/cdrom in your file manager and double click
setup.exe or in terminal and use "wine setup.exe".

BTW, DVD Decrypter won't rip DVDs unless you change Wine to NT 4.0
mode (use winecfg).

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-Austin

[rhoxie1]

Man I am sorry but when I double click on a the exe file this what i get
[/media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: /media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe or
/media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe.ZIP, period.
again i really appreciate the help and the patient

Rick

[austin987]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:38 PM, rhoxie1 <[email protected]> wrote:

Man I am sorry but when I double click on a the exe file this what i get
[/media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe]
 End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
 a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
 latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
 the last disk(s) of this archive.
note:  /media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
zipinfo:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe or
         /media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/BURN,INC./DVDFab Platinum 3/PcSetup.exe.ZIP, period.
 again i really appreciate the help and the patient

Hmm. Seems Ubuntu didn't recognize it as an executable. Try right
clicking and see if you can open with Wine, or "Wine Program Loader".

If not, try running it from the terminal.


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-Austin

[rhoxie1]

I got it to work Cool huh, man again thanks for your patients

Rick

[DaVince]

Yeah, there's this bug in Ubuntu or its file association thingy that associates EXE files with file-roller. It also reverts your own settings back to using file-roller for EXEs whenever you unpack something. It's pretty annoying.