Installing a Windows program

[Inisfad]

I currently have a Windows and an Ubuntu partition on my computer. I have purchased an electronic catalog that I want to install, however, the catalog is designed for Windows. I originally installed the catalog in my Windows partition, but it is a PIA to continually have to shut down Ubuntu (Lucid) and restart in Windows to see the catalog. I have been trying to research this on the internet, but frankly cannot find a solution. I have Wine installed, and rather than run Windows virtually inside Ubuntu, was hoping that I could run the electronic catalog with Wine. When I open the installation DVD, of course, the set up file will not run - when I click it, Wine advises that the set up file is not marked as an executable. I am unable to change the properties, as I am not the owner. Opening permissions indicates that the owner is 'user #1096' (totally unfamiliar and not my user/owner name). I am a complete newbie, but it would be really helpful if I could get this program to run in Ubuntu. Thanks for any (simple) instructions or advice you can offer.

[CaptainJamie]

Well I'm not brilliant at this but i do know that if you run in terminal

 sudo chown <yourusername> <pathtofile>

you own the file

[TeoBigusGeekus]

You could copy the dvd to your hard drive, change the permissions of the installer and try again.

[CaptainJamie]

oh also

 sudo chmod +x <pathtofile>

makes it executable I think

[Inisfad]

OK, stupid question - the DVD is listed in /media/cdrom0. Is that what I use as the path? (As in I tried that and although 'root' is now the owner, I still do not have permission). Or am I to do the path to the actual set up file within the CD? (And if so, will all the other exe files in the CD run, or must I do this with each one?) I did try the chown command with the setup.exe file, but nothing changed. Sorry to be such a pain.

[Inisfad]

You could copy the dvd to your hard drive, change the permissions of the installer and try again.

And I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what this means. When I use the chown command, the ownership doesn't change:

owner@owner-laptop:~$ chown jane /media/cdrom0/setup.exe

chown: changing ownership of `/media/cdrom0/setup.exe': Read-only file system

owner@owner-laptop:~$ ls -l /media/cdrom0/setup.exe

-rw-rw-r-- 1 1096 voice 258792 2008-08-28 15:12 /media/cdrom0/setup.exe

[TAspr]

What Worked For You?

[Tea4all]

A cd is read-only. Try running wine from the command line instead.

cd /media/cdrom0

and

wine setup.exe

or whatever the installer name is.

[wildmanne39]

Hi, if you are not able to run it in wine you can install virtualbox and install windows in it then you will not have to reboot to run window programs.
http://www.virtualbox.org/