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wine refuses to open exe files

Asked by Zetaro

wine is not opening ANY of the exe programs that i need it to open. I've tried using the terminal method and got cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\FFTPatcher.exe". then i tried going through the applications menu and finding the exe from there and it still wont open. WTF!!! Can anyone tell me why its doing this?

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Barry Drake (b-drake) said : 		#1

You almost always need to set the permissions of the executable to 'allow executing this file as a program'. Ubuntu is a bit more secure that the legacy system!

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#2

The path from a terminal is more like:
wine /home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/FFTPatcher.exe
The exe files I see in that directory do have the execute bit set.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

is FFTPatcher.exe an installer for an application, or is it an app you have installed?
If it is an installer, where is it located?
Is it marked as executable?

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep wine

Thanks

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Zetaro (zetaro-angelwing) said : 		#4

yes i did mark it executable, it is not a installer it is a simple program. when i put in that lsb thing it gives out some weird information.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Yes I want the actual text, not your description of it....

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Zetaro (zetaro-angelwing) said : 		#6

my bad lolz :

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-24-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 08:43:52 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
ii wine-gecko1.4 1.4.0-0ubuntu2 Microsoft Windows compatibility layer (embedded web browser)
ii wine1.4 1.4-0ubuntu4 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Binary Emulator and Library)
ii wine1.4-common 1.4-0ubuntu4 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (transitional package)
ii wine1.4-i386 1.4-0ubuntu4 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (32-bit support)
ii winetricks 0.0+20120308 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (winetricks)
zetaro@ubuntu:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

If you can give the name and path of the Windows binary (Case sensitive), I can give the command.

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