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Installing .exe

Asked by keith avery

[/home/user/Desktop/ZwinkySetup2.3.64.1.ZJfox000.exe]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/user/Desktop/ZwinkySetup2.3.64.1.ZJfox000.exe or
          /home/user/Desktop/ZwinkySetup2.3.64.1.ZJfox000.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/user/Desktop/ZwinkySetup2.3.64.1.ZJfox000.exe.ZIP, period.

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

An .exe is a Microsoft Windows executable program.

Linux is not Windows. Windows is not Linux.

SOME Windows programs will run under Linux BUT NOT ALL.

You might be able to play this game online, but downloads probably don't work.

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Zwinky does not appear to have an entry in www.winehq.org

My attempt to install with Wine also failed (FYI a program that is trying to set default search and homepage to MyWebSearch might not be an overly reputable piece of software).

Good luck

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) said : 		#3

Some things that are distributed in self-extracting .exe files are useful under Linux (say, gigabyte motherboard BIOS updates).

However, not all self-extracting .exe files are in the zip format, which unzip can easily unpack.

If the file was created by winrar, rar e should be able to extract it.

If the file was created by 7zip, 7z e (or 7z x) should be able to extract it.

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