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Asked by Ranje on 2009-01-31

I have installed Wine successfully and tried running my mswindows app (TurboTax) per the wine instructions. I went to "Applications-Browse C:\Drive" and double-clicked on the CD drive where the windows software resides. When I double-clicked on setup.exe this is the error I get:

An error occurred while loading the archive.

Details:
error: cannot open zipfile [ /media/cdrom0/setup.exe ]
Permission denied
zipinfo: cannot find or open /media/cdrom0/setup.exe, /media/cdrom0/setup.exe.zip or /media/cdrom0/setup.exe.ZIP.

Am I doing something wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Question information

Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu wine Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: Diego Donati

Solved:: 2009-02-01

Last query:: 2009-02-01

Last reply:: 2009-01-31

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Christopher Lunsford (binarymutant) said on 2009-01-31:

The permissions are set to not allow executing and writing. You can change the permission with the
sudo chmod -R a+x /media/cdrom
command or simply copy the contents of the cd to your /home directory and run from there.

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Ranje (rmichra) said on 2009-01-31:

I tried copying the contents from the disk to my desktop and running. That did not work either. I don't recall what the error(s) were. I thought it would be easier to run from the disk.

Do I need to do any special configuring as drives, libraries or Apps? The TurboTax box says it is for Windows and Mac.

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