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I am a Linx Virgin, I am trying to download "spocast" so that I can watch football, but I keep getting error messages, is there something that Im doing wrong! please help... thanks...
okay, well when I hit "download" I get a pop up asking to open with "archive manager" after I click okay I get this:
An error occurred while loading the archive
Archive: /tmp/FLVPlayerSetup-1.exe
[/tmp/FLVPlayerSetup-1.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /tmp/FLVPlayerSetup-1.exe or
/tmp/FLVPlayerSetup-1.exe.zip, and cannot find /tmp/FLVPlayerSetup-1.exe.ZIP, period.
You can't install "exe" files in Linux, they are for windows only.
You could search for a linux version of the program you like to use,
or use wine, to run windows programs in Linux. http://www.winehq.org/
However, if you want to look flv files in Linux, try vlc http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
You can't install "exe" files in Linux, they are for windows only.
You could search for a linux version of the program you like to use,
or use wine, to run windows programs in Linux. http://www.winehq.org/
However, if you want to look flv files in Linux, try vlc http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Kind regards
seconding this.
as ubuntus repositories host the VLC player and also a lot of VLC plugins,its simpler to just click up the package manager in use and search VLC.
if you want to install .exe files download wine via your package manager,use yum or apt depending on your distro from http://www.winehq.org/.
For videolan (vlc) you must first install rpmfusion, then vlc will accept to install remember there lots of small dependencies.
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