Error on opening, Non 7z Archive

zerogeer6 · Post by **zerogeer6** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:09 am

I downloaded a game that I play on my Windows machine hoping to play it on my Linux machine and each time I try installing/opening I get an error that says Non 7z archive. I have tried a few different ways of opening this file to be immediately greeted with this error. Any ideas what is the cause of this? It is a larger .exe file at 2g in size.

Thanks.

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:27 am

zerogeer6 wrote:I downloaded a game that I play on my Windows machine hoping to play it on my Linux machine and each time I try installing/opening I get an error that says Non 7z archive. I have tried a few different ways of opening this file to be immediately greeted with this error. Any ideas what is the cause of this? It is a larger .exe file at 2g in size.

Thanks.

How are you opening it? Just double-clicking in a GUI? I'm guessing you're not even running Wine and a file extractor is associating itself with all exe files (since some are extractable).

Cheers,
Jorl17

zerogeer6 · Post by **zerogeer6** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:35 am

I have right clicked and attempted to install using "Open with Windows Program Loader (WINE), through the WINE control panel, the WINE File Manager.. don't know what else to try at this point. I am stumped. Thank you for your help!

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:10 pm

zerogeer6 wrote:I have right clicked and attempted to install using "Open with Windows Program Loader (WINE), through the WINE control panel, the WINE File Manager.. don't know what else to try at this point. I am stumped. Thank you for your help!

Did the same thing happen in that case?

Post a console log.

Cheers,

Jorl17

zerogeer6 · Post by **zerogeer6** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:06 pm

Not sure how to do that, I am on the new side of this. I will see if I can find anything Googling it.

zerogeer6 · Post by **zerogeer6** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:07 pm

jorl17 wrote:
zerogeer6 wrote:I have right clicked and attempted to install using "Open with Windows Program Loader (WINE), through the WINE control panel, the WINE File Manager.. don't know what else to try at this point. I am stumped. Thank you for your help!
Did the same thing happen in that case?

Post a console log.

Cheers,

Jorl17

and yes, same error every single attempt I make. I used the syslog viewer to see if the error was somewhere but no luck. Not sure how to log it with console.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:11 pm

and yes, same error every single attempt I make. I used the syslog viewer to see if the error was somewhere but no luck. Not sure how to log it with console.

I suggest you stop clicking in the GUI and open a terminal and run
your application from that obtaining the log.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

John

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:14 pm

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:35 AM, zerogeer6 <[email protected]> wrote:

I have right clicked and attempted to install using "Open with Windows Program Loader (WINE), through the WINE control
panel, the WINE File Manager.. don't know what else to try at this point. I am stumped. Thank you for your help!

This will not work, or might not work the way you expect it.

The only known good way is to change directories to where the
installer is located and then invoke the wine program like this:

cd <path/to/installer>
wine <installer program>.exe

This is also in the FAQ.

James

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:16 pm

Does that *exact same* executable work in Windows? Could the download have corrupted it?

A simple google query shows up similar questions. For instance: http://www.emailquestions.com/help-desk ... error.html (proposes a simple solution) or http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=103043

It might or might not be a Wine bug, but you should be able to get away with it by manually extracting the file with a file extractor and 7-zip support. nevertheless, that console log would be helpful if this doesn't work.

Also, if it does work, try it out in a Windows machine to see if it's a Wine bug, please.

Cheers,
Jorl17

zerogeer6 · Post by **zerogeer6** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 2:05 pm

Pretty much every attempt I have made using the solutions that you all have been nice enough to provide me result in the same error. I'm stumped but being that I have next to no experience troubleshooting this kind of thing due to my lack of experience with Linux I have to throw in the towel and just go with what I know. I know, not enough effort on my part but unfortunately the ease of use with the other OS is what keeps me from fully converting. I have this installed on my Windows machine and even went to the extent of copying the file I know works to a USB drive to copy it over to this machine.

This is a great OS if you know it but the learning curve for me at least will relegate this machine to the easy stuff like we browsing or using the programs that are part of the build.

Thanks again for the assistance, sorry it did not work out better.

zerogeer6 · Post by **zerogeer6** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 2:13 pm

jorl17 wrote:Does that *exact same* executable work in Windows? Could the download have corrupted it?

A simple google query shows up similar questions. For instance: http://www.emailquestions.com/help-desk ... error.html (proposes a simple solution) or http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=103043

It might or might not be a Wine bug, but you should be able to get away with it by manually extracting the file with a file extractor and 7-zip support. nevertheless, that console log would be helpful if this doesn't work.

Also, if it does work, try it out in a Windows machine to see if it's a Wine bug, please.

Cheers,
Jorl17

Since it is an .exe file there would be no need to extract anything. I did read that post but it looks like it is more related to archive files, not executables. I cannot get a console to come up on this, the minute I do anything with the file I immediately get the 7z error and it closes the window in focus.

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 2:23 pm

zerogeer6 wrote:I cannot get a console to come up on this, the minute I do anything with the file I immediately get the 7z error and it closes the window in focus.

Open the console first and run the app from the command line as you have already been told.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal