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qterminal command sed worked. NoDisplay was changed to false. After that right clicking autorun.exe on the civ III disk brought up "load with wine windows program loader" . Problem solved. Was...

Well yes, when I right click on Civ III CD autorun.exe in file manager, I get "run with other applications". Then it shows me a picture of the menu with no wine on it anywhere. No wine windows...

Rebooted, tried to right click autorun.exe on Civilization III CD . Option shows menu. No wine on any menu category.
typed dpkg -l | grep wine into terminal
got:

ii-fonts-wine 5.0-3ubuntu1...

was no wine.desktop in /usr/share/doc/wine/examples/ only "wine windows program loader"
Typed the string in post #2 in the terminal again. no error this time, maybe I forgot a leading slash. That...

There is no wine.desktop in /usr/share/doc/wine/examples/ . discover did not put one there. If there it is invisible.
entered string from post 2 again in terminal. no error. no wine.desktop...

Thanks very much. copied wine64 from /lib/wine to /usr/share/applications
No error. File manager says it is there.
Off on an adventure, reboot.
Edit after reboot, there is no wine64 on the...

$ cannot create regular file/directory 'usr/share/applications': No such file or directory
It's lying to me, file manager can see usr/share/applications . has a lot of logos of programs in there. ...

PC has dual core Intel 2.73 ghz, 2 gb ram, 160 gb disk 95 gb left. Lubuntu is amd64 vers 20.04.3
Discover program of menu/systemtools installed wine. No wine command appeared on menu. There are...

Thanks Guiverc for post #10.
In time since last post, read a lot on en.wikipedia, decided terminal (which allows sudo chmod to run) understands posix instead of unix. Terminal runs bash but that...

Getting to the point. Read about bash today for 2 hours, very perplexed. Did get qterminal to recognize sudo dm, which I didn't execute because it is scary and not on any list. Featherpad for...

Okay, thanks. Legal problems to control lubuntu.org . I inspected wikipedia today 10/28/21, url ubuntu.com doesn't appear on wikipedia ubuntu article. Url lubuntu.me doesn't appear on wikipedia...

Okay, thanks gulverc. Specific answers. One nag per month might be tolerable. Computer has been doing the nagging even with the LAN cable removed. I hope I can edit the update notifier parameter...

Just installed lubuntu20.04.3 10/26/21
Every 25 minutes a pop up window nags me that updated software is available and do I want it now or later? I might want to update in 5 years.
It takes 10...

With dd command, wipe command, hdsomething command was trying to fill 160 gb hard disk with zeros to erase multiple partitions and obsolete op systems. Is a hardware erase on pata drives accessible...

Downloaded lubuntu 18.04 I386 iso from lubuntu.org which bounced to lubuntu.net
main download button of that downloaded 18.04 I386 but managed using "old dist" icon to download lubuntu 20.04.3 to...

lubuntu 18.04 installed in only 5 gb of 160 gb drive. Partition 5 I told it to use whole disk. It left insecure lubuntu 14.04 in partition 1 consuming 155 gb.
Tried to do a unix sudo wipe dev sda...

Yes, I can read the CD's on the CD drive and read the DVD's on the DVD drive. I could just insert the xbuntu 10.4 DVD and wipe everything clean with a repartition install of xbu 10.4, but I was...

Ubuntu 11.1 is way too slow on my 2.6 Ghz 512 mbyte ram computer. Misses many mouse clicks, movements, or keyboard entries. I also hate not having a straight text editor, and all the clicks is takes...

Okay, thanks for the tint2 link. Will look for that program. 11.1 is missing all kinds of mouse clicks and return entries to start programs, 11.1 gets behind on text entry in the Alt-D firefox...

Well krytarik from Berlin responded to the other guy that complained, nuncio.bitis, and he posted this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1923013
Thanks. At least it tells us where we...

I asked this question two hours ago. At least you know the name of the function. Apparently everybody who counts knows and is bored with it.

I just upgreaded from ubuntu 8.1 I've been using since it was new. There used to be a bar on the bottom that showed all the programs running. You could switch between them by clicking, or more...

Using Ubuntu 8.1 as updated June 15, 09 on a desktop 32 bit download, I tried to use Firefox to create my resume on usajobs.gov website June 15 by typing in the boxes. There is a box "select" with a...

Thanks to both for responding. Askew2 you were right about 35 GB partition, sorry, I've have been doing computers since 4k was a big ram and an operating system was a 6 cm stack of folded paper tape....

I damaged the ubuntu intreped ibix desktop 32 bit hard disk op system by installing wine and running psp.exe, an old version 3 utility for windows 3.1 that doesn't have an installer. Gnome windows...