Wine is not the default for exe files but mono

[Paulo Levi]

Also, also problematic is that wine is not even on the candidates of
the 'open with' panel.

On 3/23/13, Paulo Levi <i30817 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It did install. But it looks like the 'magic' marker is the same as
> mono's and one of them 'wins'. I never had this problem on the base
> ubuntu, and i had banshee and tomboy installed as well as wine, but
> maybe then it was 'wine' winning, and the others used the .desktop
> files.
>
> On 3/23/13, Tim <tim at feathertop.org> wrote:
>> This is unlikely related to the removal of unity.
>>
>> from what I can see, python, java, wine and mono (cli) are in the binfmts
>> path. It would seem that wine should install the wine binfmt file!
>> Anyway we don't really touch any of this 'base' stuff, so just report
>> bugs
>> with ubuntu-bug as per normal.
>>
>> - T
>>
>> On 23/03/13 19:42, Paulo Levi wrote:
>>> Lol.
>>> dpkg -S /usr/share/binfmts/cli
>>> mono-runtime: /usr/share/binfmts/cli
>>>
>>> all contents of the file:
>>> package mono-runtime
>>> detector /usr/lib/cli/binfmt-detector-cli
>>> interpreter /usr/bin/cli
>>> magic MZ
>>>
>>> i'm probably missing something, but my old ubuntu install had this
>>> filled with other stuff. The packages certainly arent different, so
>>> maybe it's part of some ubuntu base package (unity?) no longer used by
>>> ubuntu-GNOME?
>>> And the mono-runtime package notices that there is nothing there and
>>> installs it's own just for it...
>>>
>>> On 3/23/13, Paulo Levi <i30817 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Ahah, it's binfmt. Only i think ubuntu is preconfiguring it for use
>>>> somehow, but ubuntu GNOME is not even installing it as far as i can
>>>> tell.
>>>>
>>>> On 3/23/13, Paulo Levi <i30817 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> BTW, i think there is a package for this in normal ubuntu but i forget
>>>>> it's name. It's a program that invokes launchers for mimetypes/magic
>>>>> detectors, that does it for java, wine, mono...
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/23/13, Paulo Levi <i30817 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Even the exe files that are not mono programs.
>>>>>> I dunno about you, but this strikes me as a spectacularly bad idea.
>>>>>>
>>
>>
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