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Okay I will admit that I am a Noob at using wine. I have used it once for uTorrent via creating a launcher and creating a file path for wine to follow and it worked...but I would like to know if I could just open up wine and then drop in an .exe file to run? I need help....seriously!
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On 03/23/2012 02:38 AM, jaredlogg wrote:
Okay I will admit that I am a Noob at using wine. I have used it once for uTorrent via creating a launcher and creating a file path for wine to follow and it worked...but I would like to know if I could just open up wine and then drop in an .exe file to run? I need help....seriously!

Well, I'm no expert but two things: Just put the file someplace you can
access it, and (in that directory) just type filename and
Wine should find it and run it, _or_the file might be a DOS file that
needs to run under DOSBOX.
--doug

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Well I see that I can add applications....but how do I get that configured?
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but I would like to know if I could just open up wine and then drop in an .exe file to run?
No.

The FAQ should answer most of your questions. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ
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Post by DanKegel »

Well, there's a fair chance you can just double-click on a .exe and it will be launched
with Wine...
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Post by Lynn »

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 11:38:17 PM, you wrote:
Okay I will admit that I am a Noob at using wine. I
have used it once for uTorrent via creating a launcher
and creating a file path for wine to follow and it
worked...but I would like to know if I could just open
up wine and then drop in an .exe file to run? I need help....seriously!
I, too, am very new to this, but I have a Win file which
has no installer- Just an executable in a folder.

I copied the folder to the wine directory, and double
clicked on the .exe. It didn't run, but QT offered me the
opportunity to run it with a debugger, so I tried that. It
ran fine then, with no error messages in the console. So
I'd try copying the file/folder to Wine, and see what
happens.

Now all I have to figure out is how to get my file to run
without running the debgger.

And if anyone can help, I'd be thrilled. It's convert.exe,
if anyone is familiar with it.

Best.

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Post by Lynn »

Friday, March 23, 2012, 12:55:58 AM, you wrote:
Well I see that I can add applications....but how do I get that configured?
I think Doug meant you to do this in the terminal, on the
command line.

Open a terminal, change to the directory the executable is
in, and do:

wine [file].exe

Where [file] is the executable name.

I think that's what he meant :-)

Best -

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I'd Rather Be WARPed ***** OpenSuse 12.1
Doug

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Post by Doug »

On 03/23/2012 11:30 PM, Lynn wrote:
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 11:38:17 PM, you wrote:
Okay I will admit that I am a Noob at using wine. I
have used it once for uTorrent via creating a launcher
and creating a file path for wine to follow and it
worked...but I would like to know if I could just open
up wine and then drop in an .exe file to run? I need help....seriously!
I, too, am very new to this, but I have a Win file which
has no installer- Just an executable in a folder.

I copied the folder to the wine directory, and double
clicked on the .exe. It didn't run, but QT offered me the
opportunity to run it with a debugger, so I tried that. It
ran fine then, with no error messages in the console. So
I'd try copying the file/folder to Wine, and see what
happens.

Now all I have to figure out is how to get my file to run
without running the debgger.

And if anyone can help, I'd be thrilled. It's convert.exe,
if anyone is familiar with it.

Best.
I think you said, or somebody did, that the file is convert.exe. I just
installed it.
Find the file in your directory, with Dolphin or whatever your file
manager is.
(I assume you have unzipped it. If not, then, in a console, cd to the
directory where
the .zip file is, and type unzip convert.zip and it will create the
convert.exe file.) You can
leave it where it is, or move it where you'd like. I found the file in
Dolphin--it IS a Windows
program--and I right clicked on it and said copy. then I pasted it on
my desktop. Snap on
the icon on your desktop and it should open. Mine does.

--doug

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Post by Doug »

On 03/23/2012 11:36 PM, Lynn wrote:
Friday, March 23, 2012, 12:55:58 AM, you wrote:
Well I see that I can add applications....but how do I get that configured?
I think Doug meant you to do this in the terminal, on the
command line.

Open a terminal, change to the directory the executable is
in, and do:

wine [file].exe

Where [file] is the executable name.

I think that's what he meant :-)

Best -
I guess I wasn't clear. I said to unpack the file using the terminal, or
console.
Once you have unzipped it, go to your file manager--in my case, that's
Dolphin. Maneuver to the directory where the file is. If you left-click
on the file
_in Dolphin_ it will open in its graphic version, as if you were running
Windows.
Do that, just to make sure it's working. Now Right click on the file
and select
copy. Move your mouse to someplace on the desktop and right-click again.
Select paste. You will create an icon that says "DOS" in the middle,
and under
it will be the file name, in this case, Convert.exe. Now if you
left-click on the
icon, the file should open once again in graphic mode, just like Windows.

In the case of convert, if you try to run the file out of the terminal,
(type
convert, not convert.exe) you will get a text version of the file, which is
rather confusing, but presumably you could use it that way.

I hope that clears it all up. Sorry for any confusion.

--doug



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