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I downloaded an online game off of the Internet and it won't let me install it

Asked by Anthone Lamb

It is an .exe file and when I open it, it tells me: "Cannot open (file name): No application suitable for automatic installation is available for handling this kind of file." There must be a simple solution to this.

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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) said : 		#1

Thank for your question.

The .exe file is a Windows application to to be able to run in Ubuntu You have to use wine.

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Best Sam Cater (wraund-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

if you dont know what macuto means (no offense to either of you), wine is a windows emulator, allowing some windows executables to be run under linux, open a terminal and enter...

sudo apt-get install wine

then open a file manager and right-click the .exe. Then choose Open With, then enter 'wine'

should run fine

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Anthone Lamb (buster-sword999) said : 		#3

Thanks Sam Cater, that solved my question.

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curt (potheadgangster) said : 		#4

did not work it said "Unable to fetch some archives, try running apt-get update or apt-get --fix-missing".

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curt (potheadgangster) said : 		#5

k sorry i got it to work thx lotz