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Installed fedora 16 for the first time. When I run a install for some software Ive installed ok on red hat 5.0. I get the error “wish80.exe: command not found”. wish80.exe is in a tcl bin directory in the install directory. It is NOT a Windows program.
When I right click-properties on wish80.exe it says DOS/Windows executable. So I’m googleing away looking at everything about file associations and how to change them, installing tcl, and some other stuff and nothing does the trick. Paths are all good. Everything is executable.
So I figure :-P I’ll open a file browser and double click on wish80.exe to see what will happen. It thinks it’s an executable archive and presents me with a bunch of lovely error messages saying it’s not an archive and zip problem whatever.
I tried losing .exe extensions on the file and in the install script. I installed ActiveState tcl and tried changing the install script to use it. Nothing works although I created a lot of interesting errors. BTW, wish executes fine. I just wasn’t able to get the install running with it.
By this time I’ve installed so much junk and changed way to many settings so I fiqure I’ve really screwed the pooch so did a complete reinstall. Same problem. Still haven’t fiqured out how to dump the .exe associations.
Bottom line is I can’t seem to get my installer to execute.
Are you in need of some scientific tool or are you doing plain installation? This exe I suppose is windows-particular-software-install, which means the least that it is intended for fedora running over a VM, or a software intended for windows adoption. There has to be a counterpart linux-install for the software you want to install, it should be found side by side to that in the form of *.tar.gz or *bz2, etc. but not *exe.
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