linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Whining About Wine

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:46:38PM -0700, Chris Trask wrote:

>
> Now I'm having all sorts of trouble installing a Windows application.
> I've tried twice, using the applications setup.exe file. It goes through
> all of the proper setup stages, asking for this and that plus the serial
> number. When it's done, there isn't a single item loaded on the hard drive
> and the icon in the program list diappears when you click on it.
>
>
> So, how do you install a Windows application on a machine with LinuxMint
> and Wine installed when the application has a setup.exe file?

I don't use wine very much, and have found it to work about half the time
on the specific applications that I've tried.

I just run wine file. It will then almost always give
some errors, but if I'm lucky, I'll see that I now have a
$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/whatever

It may be this particular program doesn't work with wine. Somewhere on
their site, they have a list of many Windows programs with descriptions of
how well they work or don't work.

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