Installing CD software

insane_bananas · Post by **insane_bananas** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:04 am

I'm new to both the ubuntu system and Wine.
I just installed wine and tried to install software from a CD.
An error window popped up:
"There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file"
I don't know what I'm supposed to do to fix this.

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:24 am

What sequence of events occurred? Did you try and run an exe on the CD through Wine? Is it an msi? Were you expecting autorun to help you out? Did it say what "this type of file" is? Maybe even tell us what program you are installing? What did the AppDB say? Perhaps you need to assign the path where the CD is mounted a drive letter in winecfg.

Jake

doug · Post by **doug** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:46 am

On 12/22/2011 12:04 AM, insane_bananas wrote:

I'm new to both the ubuntu system and Wine.
I just installed wine and tried to install software from a CD.
An error window popped up:
"There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file"
I don't know what I'm supposed to do to fix this.

I'm not sure I can help, but I'll try. I'm using a Linux distro that has
Dolphin as a file manager. If I go to Dolphin and go to the CD
(one of the entries at the side) and open that, I have a screen of
what's on the CD. Then I go to the .exe file that I want to install
and snap on that, and it automatically opens itself in Wine and installs.
(The Windows-style window opens with the Install Wizard, and it goes
from there.)

If you have something other than Dolphin, some kind of file manager
must let you choose the CD and open files on it, so try this technique
and see what happens.

--doug

insane_bananas · Post by **insane_bananas** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:55 am

Thank you for the help, I got it to work.

comvigo · Post by **comvigo** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:19 am

Hi, always run .exe file to install any software from compact disc in future, you never face this type of problem......