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Unable to install windows programs like inpage, urdu arebic pak installer and other

Asked by mohammed mujeeb

Hello Ubantu Team,

I am very new to Ubantu , being Machintosh User , i see ubantu very similar feature and graphics in ubantu. i helped my friend to install Ubantu on his Windows System, he was amazed to see and use this OS. i has bacome big fan of ubantu know , but only issues which i and my friends are facing are , we are not able to install any windows programms .

I checked in Ubantu community, their was a solution for this , i installed Wine Software but it only downloads specific software not all which i want ... plz it's my humble request for you all to plz help to install windows programe which is use them a lot.

Regards
Mohammed and friends
India

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

When it comes to running Windows programs on Linux the best advice is, if at all possible, don't. You can usually find a program written for Linux to do the job and in many cases its officially supported and in the software centre.

Perhaps you can tell us what programs you want and what they do and we can suggest suitable alternatives.

Where no alternative exists, which for most people is games, you can try Wine but its far from perfect some programs work well others are so bad to be unusable check the application database
http://appdb.winehq.org/

In a few circumstances only Windows will do in which case your only option is to either dual boot or install windows in a virtual PC using Virtualbox or similar software. Dual booting or virtualisation software does however require you to have a legal copy of Windows.

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