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Problem to open .exe files

Asked by Edoardo Amisano

Hey everybody,
I've got Ubuntu 10.10 and i've got a problem. I've installed the Wine because like this I can install programs that are made for Windows, but when I try to install the program a little window appears saying that " is not an executable bit", so I looked in internet what this means, and I read that you can only open trusted files, so I'm asking if someone knows how to install programs like Itunes or VoipBuster.
Thanks,

Sorry my bad English, I'm from Italy

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

1) Itunes does not work well under linux, even with wine. Apple do not release a version for linux. if you have an apple device, you might want to look at alternatives.
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/itunes

2) Right click the file, select properties, permissions, then check the executable box.

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Best Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu) said : 		#2

Hello

for security reasons the executable files you download doesn't have execution permissions.

In order to open exe files with wine you need to set execution permissions to that file. In the file explorer (normally nautilus) right click the .exe file, goto properties, permissions, check the execution field.

After doing that the file will be executed with wine.

If you want to learn how permissions are managed in unix/linux open a terminal and run:

man chmod

HTH

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Edoardo Amisano (edoardoamisano) said : 		#3

Thank you

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Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu) said : 		#4

Glad to see it worked

Can you please mark this question as solved.

It may help others that have this problem

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Edoardo Amisano (edoardoamisano) said : 		#5

Thanks Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf), that solved my question.