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

[ray burke]

On 10/10/09, Brian Norman Wootton <Brian.Meg at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>  -------------------
>  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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Brian,

I have solved the problem of running the yahoo messenger 9 within wind by
following your instruct within a terminal window $ wine setup.exe,
it worked to a stage of installing the product but I didnt follow
thru as tested on my
dual boot Kubuntu/xp pro sp3 and it messed up bad, on the xp pro, so
decided not to
install and just use kmess

ray