Moving an exe file from Ubuntu downloads to WINE

If you have an installer with a .exe extension, you shouldn't have to move the file to any special place in order to run it. Just right-click on the .exe file and click Open With Wine (or something similar),

(Sorry, I meant to end that with a period; I didn't mean for it to look like that answer is incomplete.)

When I right click it does not give an option to open with WINE, when I downloaded it did, but then it came up with an unexecutable error, would it be an idea to download through IE running on WINE and do it that way, well actually I'll try that anyway

it came up with some errors when I tried to download through IE on wine

Right-click on the .exe file and click on Properties. When the Properties window comes up, click the Permissions tab (in the center, near the top of the window). Next to "Execute:", check the box labeled "Allow executing file as program". Then try again to open it with Wine.

If that doesn't work, then right-click on the .exe file and click Copy. Then press Alt+F2 to bring up the Run Application dialog box. Click in the textbox and type "wine " (not including the quotation marks, but including the space at the end). Then press Ctrl+V to copy the absolute path of the .exe file into the text box. Then press enter.

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ms publisher won't run under wine. not all windoze programs will run under wine.

check the winehq website to see which apps will work.

oh well, thanks for all your help anyway, willtry your method Eliah, if not then, just get used to an Ubuntu ap, no other windows stuff I want, just I'd been using publisher for 15years and I cant be arsed fiddlin

If you need to run a Windows application that cannot be run with Wine, but you want to use Ubuntu, then you could run the application on Windows inside a virtual machine. Software such as VirtualBox and VMware lets you do this.

there are lots of html editors in the software center and the synaptic package manager (e.g. bluefish) that you might want to look into.