How do u install a software that is in exe form

How do u install a software that is in exe form

A Windows exe binary is not a format that can run natively under Ubuntu or any other Linux. There is a emulator layer called 'wine' that may allow you to run the application you want.

What is the application you are trying to run?

You must install wine. Its a program, not an emulator, that can run and install *.exe files:

sudo apt-get install wine

Then you must do:

wine installfile.exe >>> With this wine will install the program into Ubuntu.

You can run any exe in the same way.

Bye

actually once wine is installed correctly (you can use synaptic to do this, search for wine, or you can get it from the command line: sudo apt-get install wine)

then just download the .exe file to your desktop and wine should automatically run it.

Hope this helps.

Nether two answers solve my question. When i use teminal and type sudo apt-get install wine. It saying that theres no pakage like that

Lahiru.nc in the wine website you can download wine application, the website to download is http://www.winehq.org/site/download, then you select your distro of linux and install wine.

Lahiru.nc in the wine website you can download wine application, the website to download is http://www.winehq.org/site/download, then you select your distro of linux and install wine.

To install wine

Using Synaptic please first enable the universe repository:

Launch Synaptic from menu: System->Administration->Synaptic package manager
From Synaptic menu: Settings->Repositories-> Tab Ubuntu software
enable "Community Maintained open source software (universe)"
Close Synaptic

Then open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install wine

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then there are a lot of howto on the net:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/05/18/how-to-install-windows-programs-in-linux-using-wine/
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/wine
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

Hope this helps