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Asked by John Kelly

Hello there,
I have just installed Wine in my jaunty jackalope HP amd64 laptop.
Selecting Wine in applications I get Programs Browse C drive Configure Wine
I went to Configure Wine and my limited knowledge prompted me to select XP and that is as far as I got.
Can anyone bring me further... relatively new beginner!
Thank you for your help
John

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Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan) said : 		#1

You should select the most recent version of windows from the list. I think its "windows 2008"
Just double click on the .exe file you want to install and it should install it.
You can run the app by going to programs after its installed.
Just one thing to add. Wine doesnt do everything it can install games and apps but not all.
Check out http://winehq.org/ for more info on running wine.

Hope that helps
Shane

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#2

shane fagan wrote:
> Your question #75469 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/75469
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> shane fagan proposed the following answer:
> You should select the most recent version of windows from the list. I think its "windows 2008"
> Just double click on the .exe file you want to install and it should install it.
> You can run the app by going to programs after its installed.
> Just one thing to add. Wine doesnt do everything it can install games and apps but not all.
> Check out http://winehq.org/ for more info on running wine.
>
> Hope that helps
> Shane
>
>
 Hello Shane,
I selected 2008 as you suggested and then went to browse c drive and
saw explorer.exe and double clicked on it and it said in a box an error
while loading the archive
Command line output
>
> 7-Zip 4.58 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Igor Pavlov 2008-05-05
> p7zip Version 4.58 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)
>
> Error: /home/john/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/explorer.exe is not
> supported archive
>
> Errors: 1
 thanks for your help
john

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You dont really have to play with that stuff much (if at all)

simply run:

wine /path/to/file.exe

and wine will do its best to run it. Setting Windows 2008 can cause issues and if you are running games I suggest XP and failing that, Vista. You can even right click windows executables and tell the system to open it with wine if you prefer a gui way.

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#4

thanks actionparsnip
Ill give it a miss. i dont really need it
John