<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> 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@gmail.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> Subject: Re: help To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 9:56 PM <div class="plainMail">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. <a ymailto="mailto:Sallydodge53@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=Sallydodge53@yahoo.com">Sallydodge53@yahoo.com</a> > > > > > > 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 - -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 <a href="http://counter.li.org" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org</a>. Key ID = 3951B48D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iD8DBQFKPqyANuSIOjlRtI0RAmHTAJ958GVrtKSyZU10Pm6s6i5Khg3wIACgi7E+ 3waEJElISzDdoqEtEhz6Eo8= =xTVU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>