help new user and i am not liking this at all

[casmic38]

I download game torrents and so far they will not work at all. It will not load the games i keep getting similar errors what do I do here is one of the messages i get

:confused:

Archive: /home/family/Downloads/Fashion Forward_Setup.exe
[/home/family/Downloads/Fashion Forward_Setup.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.
note: /home/family/Downloads/Fashion Forward_Setup.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/family/Downloads/Fashion Forward_Setup.exe or
/home/family/Downloads/Fashion Forward_Setup.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/family/Downloads/Fashion Forward_Setup.exe.ZIP, period.


Please help me:KS

[gsmanners]

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.

I assume you're using File-Roller rather than wine to try to run a Windows program on Linux?

For more information on Wine, see:

http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/index
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=313

[linuxinstalledfromhdd]

http://cinderbox.net/2011/05/02/how-to-install-steam-in-ubuntu-11-04-a-game-distribution-platform/