help

Sally Dodge sallydodge53 at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 21 22:07:02 UTC 2009


I do not know how to do much more than how to turn the computer on and read my mail look things up and play my games but I can follow directions well so if you have the time and patientints i would apperciate any help you could give.
--- On Sun, 6/21/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: help
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 9:56 PM

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Sally Dodge wrote:
> I recently installed ubuntu to my computer.  I am now having mega problems installing other programs.  I had a game from wild tangent called fate.  I have a backup disk and a path for installation  but when I try to install it I get an error message from the archive.  I am trying to install through wine and or llinux but I still get this same error message it starts out as 
> home/tricia/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profile/tricia/desktop/fate_installer/_.exe/end-of-central-directory/signature not found.either this file is not a zipfile or if constitutes one disk of a multi-port archive.   It continues on with some other stuff and repeats it's self a coupule of more times. I am very frusteraated and am seriousily considering in re installing windows please help me if you can.  I can not download shockwave, adobe reader and other programs needed to play oother games and do ther things.  please help.  Sallydodge53 at yahoo.com
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    I have no idea what your problem is, but I wince every time I hear
someone say wine. The program you want to load sounds like a Windows
program.

    Have you the ability to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows? This is a much
better way to do things.

73 Karl


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