On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:46:38PM -0700, Chris Trask wrote:
> > Now I'm having all sorts of trouble installing a Windows application. > I've tried twice, using the applications setup.exe file. It goes through > all of the proper setup stages, asking for this and that plus the serial > number. When it's done, there isn't a single item loaded on the hard drive > and the icon in the program list diappears when you click on it. > > > So, how do you install a Windows application on a machine with LinuxMint > and Wine installed when the application has a setup.exe file? I don't use wine very much, and have found it to work about half the time on the specific applications that I've tried. I just run wine <path-to-setup.exe>file. It will then almost always give some errors, but if I'm lucky, I'll see that I now have a $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/whatever It may be this particular program doesn't work with wine. Somewhere on their site, they have a list of many Windows programs with descriptions of how well they work or don't work. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: I did a couple of slayers in my time. I don't like to brag. Who am I kidding? I love to brag. One time, during the Boxer Rebellion... ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
