basic skills to run an exe setup file

Please note the .exe files must be run with windows they are native linux software executable files... so you have 3 alternative:

1) usually you can find an Ubuntu native software alternative to Win program (so please tell us what you are doing)
2) Install wine software and try to open the exe using wine (not all software run good under Wine)
3) install virtualbox package and using virtualbox create a virtual pc then install Windows on that virtual pc (you can install and run all windows software on windows installed on a virtual pc, is pretty like a real pc)

I am newbie to linux. Am not trying to use .exe on this system.
I need to know what is the equivilent of .exe.

i downloaded some card games. i cannot get them to install. When i double click it, it shows the individual files, and i do not know where to go from there.

Wilco on wine and virtualbox.

sam mcbroom

File extensions do not matter as much on linux as they do on windows. If you have a file whose contents are executable, normally you just give it a name, like "firefox" or "vlc", and thats it.

Normally, you download things by running them in your package manager (the "software centre"), and then these programs will have a menu item appear in the "dash" (press the windows key to bring up the dash, or click the ubuntu icon on the LHS) - you type the name of the program you want to run, or you browse through the list of installed programs. Its the same type of system (but it predates) the "application store" interfaces that you may be familiar with?

What did you download, and from where? It is also generally discouraged (but possible) to install software from random locations on the internet, as these are not checked for malware, or other security problems

what files are you wanting to install? most times they aren't needed or there are open equivelents

I downloaded /home/sam/Downloads/solitaireepic-linux-setup.
a linux solitaire game.
/when i tried to install it, it extracted into a readme, and another file, /home/sam/Downloads/solitaireepic-linux-setup.
It would not install after that.

Thank you for your reply. I feel like such a dummy.
the AilseRite sol game is just too small for me to see.

sam

if you run:

sudo ./solitaireepic-linux-setup

It will install. I just did the same myself :)

OK, how do i get to type the sudo ./?

all i know is point and click. like i said, feel like such a dummy, but i am trying.

sam

In a terminal run:

cd /home/sam/Downloads
sudo ./solitaireepic-linux-setup

Will run it

ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLRIGHT111!!!
I found it

Thank you very much. I dont think i would have ever tried that.

sam