Running Windows Applications in Ubuntu

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 14 Aug 2014 02:27:20 +1000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> I have tried to install WINE on my test laptop. I have no idea how to 
> access it since nothing appears in the left hand toolbar.  Is there any 

How did you try installing it?  Did you do

apt-get install wine

?

That should be all you need to do.  There may not be anything showing up in 
the launcher (see below).

> documentation to tell me how to install and use WINE?  I remember using 
> some years ago on Red Hat linux. I beleive it had a tool bar icon to 
> start it and it had a folder for data files.
> 
> I have several programs for which I cannot find Ubuntu equivalent ( MS 
> Access, FreeBMD, BMDVerify, FreeReg and FTW)  Are there any alternatives 
> to WINE for running these programs?

Wine (wine-1.0.1-1.el5) on my CentOS 5 system installs an exec handler such
that attempting to run .exe files, will automagically fire up wine. If the
Ubuntu install of Wine does the same, you should be able to just double click
on the exe file(s).

*I* don't use any sort of menu, desktop, or toolbar hackery, but I do use the 
CLI, in which case

wine foo.exe

usually works for the rare times I need to run a mess-windows program (mostly 
testing the basic runnablity of cross-built mess-windows executables).

> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Goggin
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