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ubuntu wii not allow installation of navman cd rom (windows software)

Asked by Peter Stuart Brown

Navman GPS cd rom will not load, it is aligned to Microsoft however should this be a problem?

it also has Adobe reader on it, we have Adobe reader on our system.

Can you help?

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

IN general Microsoft software wont run under Linux and Linux software wont run on Windows.

However, there is something called wine. Thake a look here

http://appdb.winehq.org/

No guarantees however, wine lets some windows programs run under Linux but not all

Wine is in the software centre

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#2

Hello ,

another option might be the VirtualBox. You can install the package and then install windows to the virtual box . You can run everything ,windows will work like on a natural environment , although virtualbox is not so good for games. (cuz of virtual graphics card and processor).

Documentation of virtualbox here : https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Documentation

You can download and install VB from here : https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Also an open source version of VirtualBox included in Ubuntu. Virtualbox-ose. You can install it directly from Ubuntu-Software-Center.

Thanks

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