Im installing software from a disc but when the installation begins it asks me to insert the disc even though its already inserted. Its windows software but im using wine compatibility layer

Is the software in the Wine AppDB ? you can check at http://www.winehq.org/
Also are you opening the CD with Wine app?
Have you checked to see if Linux has software that you can use?

   David
   in TN

Its not in the wine AppDB. The software is by native-instruments. Its Called Komplete 6. Yes Im Opening the CD with Wine App. Linux doesnt have this software.

try changing the terminal's pwd to the location of the file then run:

wine ./setup.exe

replace setup.exe with the filename to kick off the install.

You may be able to keep what you already have, but click browse and point the installer to the file the installer expects.

You may want to contact Komplete too, thats some damn expensive software dude and I'm sure they will give you some advice (yikes, too rich for my blood).

What version of wine are you using?
You can try upgrading to the latest version by adding https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa then updating

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

Simple command line :)

If you find this a bit confusing or overwhelming I'd just like to pitch in to say that Native Instruments' software usually works very well in Linux, so once you figure out the installation part it should be a smooth ride :).

Also, to summarise (I'll prepend terminal lines with '$'):

First install wine (as leighman and actionparsnip said):
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install wine

Then, go to your installation media's directory (as actionparsnip said):
$ cd /media/cdrom
 - note that this might be /media/dvd or even /media/cdrom0 or similar. You can press TAB for auto-completion.

And finally run the installation (as actionparsnip said):
$ wine ./setup.exe
 - or install.exe or NI_KSETUP.exe or whatever it's called, remember that there is a difference between lowercase and uppercase filenames in Linux.

I hope you get it up and running, feel free to write more questions if it's still not working.