how to use wine?


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I installed wine from the package manager, but how do i use it? i have also installed celstia (cool little star program). neither wine nor celstia shows up in the gnome menus. But Beep Media Player does.

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any more elegant way to do it?

Usually I just double click on the Windows file I want to install and WINE will create an Icon for it usually on the desktop or in the "start" menu section. WINE basically allows you to run many Windows programs as if they were native under Linux. You don't actually run WINE itself.

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Ah. What is a good program to open .zip and .rar files? I downloaded the linux version of WinRAR but its in a .exe form, and i typed wine /home/tsamuel/Desktop/rar/rar.exe along with the same thing with no .exe on the end. Gave an error both times. Wine says its installed from the package manager, and i even added a repository given on the ubuntu wiki website page about wine.

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For wine its old school "command line" way.

It has its GUI's to handle installed applications as far as I know. But to isntall/uninstall/etc

its all command based.

Cheers,

-Sikh.

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Ah. What is a good program to open .zip and .rar files? I downloaded the linux version of WinRAR but its in a .exe form, and i typed wine /home/tsamuel/Desktop/rar/rar.exe along with the same thing with no .exe on the end. Gave an error both times. Wine says its installed from the package manager, and i even added a repository given on the ubuntu wiki website page about wine.

The built in archive programs should handle them as long as you also install their plugins through either Add/Remove or Synaptic. Though. I had actually installed WinRAR under Ubuntu and it works just fine. Usually all you have to do to get an EXE to run is just give it permissions to execute though the right click Properties menu.

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I am completly new to linux. How do i run an exe? I tried the wine in command line, didnt help to run the file at all. Also, the menus are a big problem. In windows, when you install a program it puts it in the start menu. I installed 3d chess, celstia, wine, beep media player, and blender. Out of those 5, only blender showed up in the "Applications" menu, beep i had to add in preferences, and the other 3 dont show up at all. Celstia runs if i go and type celstia into the terminal, but then it crashes linux.

The other 2, wine and 3d chess dont run at all. What am i doing wrong? Im liking linux, its just such a steep learning curve.

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To run an exe, it can be associated with wine, so when you double-click it, wine runs it. You don't need to use the command line. There are options. ;)

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Thanks much, im sure ill have more questions in a new thread soon.

I'm reading up on linux and trying to learn more about it, you guys have been a big help. Thanks alot.

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If I may venture an opinion...

An over-reliance on Wine, and Windows apps is not a good thing. While it's true that there are some great apps for Windows, and in some cases their Linux counterparts don't measure-up, I believe that the "half-way-house" that Wine is will ultimately sully your experience of using Linux.

Part of the fun of Linux is exploring what's on offer and using new tools and methods to get things done. Seeing how the other half lives, as it were. Don't get me wrong, when I first started using Linux I did the same thing. I was so stuck in my ways in terms of what software I was comfortable with, that I ran a lot of things through Wine, and to be fair, it worked; I was happy. But at some point I decided not to that any more, and find and use the Linux equivalents, and my Linux usage is a richer experience because of it.

Each to his own, though...

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