Ubuntu

cant open ZIP.files or exe. them

Asked by robnero

I DOWNLOAD ACOUSTICA MIXCRAFT, A ZIP FILE MUSIC PROGRAM AND IT WONT OPEN IT. IT JUST SHOWS THE CONTENTS IE.READ ME FILES BUT THE PROGRAM SETUP EXE. SAYS IT CANT OPEN AND IT CANT FIND IT. I THEN DOWNLOAD UNZIP AND WINZIP BUT AGAIN IT WONT SETUP EXE. THEM. AM I JUST LAME!?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 5 16:20:22 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: nautilus 1:2.20.0-0ubuntu7.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
ProcCwd: /home/rob
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux gbook 2.6.22-15-generic #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 09:21:34 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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This question was originally filed as bug #245985.

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robnero (robnero) said : 		#1
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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#3

Thanks for this question.

According to your description it looks like that this is a software that was written for windows, not for linux. In order to be able to install or run it you first have to install the wine package.

Here is information how to install packages: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoftwareManagement

Information how to use wine can be found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

Hope this helps.

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