Is there some trick installing a .exe file using wine for, Kubuntu 8.04

[Brian Norman Wootton]

Re: Is there some trick installing a .exe file using wine for
	Kubuntu	8.04

On Friday 09 October 2009 04:18:20 pm Muzer wrote:

> > ray burke wrote:
>   
>> > > On 10/10/09, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>>     
>>> > >> ray burke wrote:
>>> > >>  > I want to be able to run a windows .exe program on my kde 3.5 
>>>       
Kubuntu
>>> > >>  > 8.04, as I have it loaded in the program files in wine but cant
>>> > >>  > execute it?
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Generally, you install a Windows program in wine with:
>>> > >>
>>> > >>  wine setup.exe
>>> > >>
>>> > >>  Of course, you would replace setup.exe with the installation program
>>> > >> for this particular Windows program.  Then, you can run programs from
>>> > >> the Wine menu.  How did you install the program exactly, and what
>>> > >> happens if/when you try to run it?
>>> > >>
>>> > >>  Matt Flaschen
>>>       
>> > >
>> > > Matt Flaschen
>> > >
>> > > how do you insert wine setup.exe and where?
>> > >
>> > > ray
>>     
> > 
> > When you're in the file manager, press F4, and type it into the box that
> > appears at the bottom. Press F4 once you're done to get rid of it again.
> > 
>   
have you tried to simply double-click the .exe? Wine will automatically 
try to run it if it can. I think, in my opinion, that if a windows app 
won't open or install that way, it will most likely be too much of a 
hassle to try to get running. If you are super lucky, wine will even 
create menu entries for the app (even if it doesn't run sometimes) clay.

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I've got 9.04 on a 64b AMD.

I have tried all the suggested variations, all produce the same symptoms:
on the console:

$wine /media/cdrom0/setup.exe

gives me a pop-up:
------------------------------------------
MDAC was updated. Your system will reboot to complete the update. After 
your system
reboots setup.exe will continue.
---------------------------------------------------------------
when I click OK in the pop-up, I get multiple

fixme:odbc:SQLRemoveDriveManager

on the console - the whole thing is in an continuous loop, Only way out 
is Cont-C, kill -9 blah,
or reboot. I tried rebooting myself as the pop-up was lying, but no good 
- still the same
continuous loop after the wine ... command.
Any clues? or should I just forget it, as Clay says - or is there a 
simple fix for simpleton
like me?
brian
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