Mint + wine

[pdiddles03]

Ok, so I'm pretty tired of using the old interface of windows xp and im tired of their theme and I'm just tired of them all around. I love linux mint, it's the best Linux distro I've used!

Ok, my question is this, I have installed wine on mint, but every time i try to open an exe it tells me It's not able to open it, I forget the exact message because I'm at work but has anyone else had this experience? If I need to configure wine after it is installed somehow, can someone please help me!!!!

Thank you all in advance!

[AlbertP]

You need to mark the EXE as executable. Right-click the file, Properties, tab Rights, and check to allow executing the file.

[pdiddles03]

Ok, even if linux still sees it as wine? like the exe shows up as a wine glass but I still have to do this?

I hope this works. It would be sweet to get flash cs5 working for the most part on my Linux.

[rich2005]

Not everything will work with wine.

Sometimes you can get a hint if you open a terminal in the application folder
/home/"user"/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/"application"
and run the application manually
$ wine "application.exe"
This might throw up as an error, a missing .dll or 'something' that you can add to windows\system32

But in this case it is looking dubious. see:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=21127

and some pointers that might get it installed and working
http://int3ractive.blogspot.com/2010/08 ... -with.html

[AlbertP]

Yes, also if there's a wine glass behind it you still need to mark it as executable to be able to run it. Linux Mint (or maybe upstream Ubuntu) have built a check for executability into Wine.