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gnome-panel package

installing .exe files.

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plzz can of u help me installing .exe files on liux...i herad that we can use swine to do that,,,but i am a newbie here...so please do help me to do this............

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Best Justin Payne (neolithium82) said : 		#1

Not every program works with wine, however change your sources.list file, as described here:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_add_extra_repositories

Then you can type this command in terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Termina)
sudo aptitude install wine

then

winecfg

Download the program you wish to use through wine, and to somewhere and you can open it either by right clicking on the program, and selecting 'Open With' Wine or cd to the directory and type

wine program-name.exe

Hope this helps!
Neolithium

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#2

Hello,

The ubuntu documentation on wine is here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

If you are looking for a specific windows program, you can see if it is working with Wine on the Wine application database:
http://appdb.winehq.org/

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Markus Thielmann (thielmann) said : 		#3

Just to add a few thoughts: Wine is able to run *some* Windows programs in a acceptable manner.

Please don't expect it to be a windows *alternative*. If you really need to run windows software, you might want to consider installing windows in a "virtual machine".

Especially if you're new to Ubuntu, I would highly recommend to search for native linux applications which will fulfill your request, rather than trying to install windows software through wine.

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revenge (free-call786) said : 		#4

Thanks Neolithium (Justin Payne), that solved my question.