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06-04-2003, 04:45 AM
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Registered: Jun 2002
Location: India
Posts: 39
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running windows executable in linux
If anybody knows how can one run the .exe files in linux. I don't know if it is possible or not. Please enlighten me.
Thanks in advance
Anamika
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06-04-2003, 04:53 AM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Switzerland, Berne
Distribution: Slackware 9.0
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Why, for heaven sakes, would you like to do that?! You can emualte a Windows environement with Wine.
http://wine.org
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06-04-2003, 06:00 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Durham, England
Distribution: Fedora Core 4
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The link is wrong, it's http://www.winehq.com
However, don't use Wine if you don't need it. There are normally freely available native apps that will do what you want.
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06-04-2003, 08:28 AM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Switzerland, Berne
Distribution: Slackware 9.0
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Thanks for the link correction. I never used Wine 
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06-05-2003, 08:00 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2003
Posts: 3
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I have installed this software many times.But I failed at last.So it is difficult to install this software.What is your feeling of it?
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06-05-2003, 08:05 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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it sucks... go native.
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06-05-2003, 08:37 AM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Netherlands
Distribution: debian (sid)
Posts: 693
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i think winex is good though.. even though it is not native :D
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06-05-2003, 12:04 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Atlanta
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 1,280
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just to clear it up, Wine Is Not an Emulator
people keep calling it an emulator....even though the name itself means the above.
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06-05-2003, 12:31 PM
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Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Slackware
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its so bloody complicated to get an app working in wine, that generally its not worth the time and effort, unless you *really* need it. for example, i do web stuff for work, so i have an install of IE6 on my pc. i just use it to see how the page will look/act in IE, i use mozilla as my web browser.
although, wineX is gorgeous. i have warcraft III running with it flawlessly. 
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