Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Whining About Wine

>
> >
> > 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 <path-to-setup.exe>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
>

I take it that command line is written in the terminal function.

>
> 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.
>

Okay, I'll try that method next. I didn't see my Windows application(s)
on that list.

Chris



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