Wine not opening .exe files

[Tomanderland]

Heya,

I just installed wine onto Hardy and I have wine tricks and all that but when i try opening a exe files by double clicking it or using terminal it just doesnt open.

I am trying to install macromedia studio 8, ive tried creative suite (it worked when I used to use ubuntu a few months ago but not now) and photoshop cs2.

The following comes up in terminal
maitland@maitland-laptop:/media/cdrom0$ wine install studio 8.exe
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\install.exe": Module not found

But sometimes it doesnt come up with an error but still nothing happens.. and there have been other times where it says something about windows installer..

Anyone have any idea? I'm not very experienced with Wine

Thanks!

[Patb]

Tomanderland, in the terminal try:

wine "full_name_of_the_exe_file"

I'm not sure of the exact name of your exe file. Include the inverted commas to avoid confusion over the spaces.

Cheers, Pat.

[ajackson]

Try right-clicking on it and seeing what the default open with is, it might be mono or it might be nothing at all but you can select open with and choose wine.

[SunnyRabbiera]

did you try to configure wine?
There is a tool in your menu called configure wine, it might help.

[Tomanderland]

Thanks for everyone's help

Pat, I tried that it came up with this, still no result.

maitland@maitland-laptop:/media/cdrom0$ wine "install studio 8.exe"
wine: could not load L"D:\\install studio 8.exe": Module not found

Also, the right click menu opens with wine windows emulator, clicked it nothing happened and I havent been able to find anything in the config thing that might help.. Am i missing a wine file or something?

Tom

[jacksaff]

Heya,

maitland@maitland-laptop:/media/cdrom0$ wine install studio 8.exe
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\install.exe": Module not found

Your syntax is wrong. You are telling wine to run a program called "install".
You don't need an install command for wine. Just run the .exe file (from the correct location of course).

wine studio8.exe

You might also have problems with the spaces. In the command above you have studio 8.exe
The shell interprets this as two things, studio and 8.exe, which is why you shouldn't use spaces in file names in unix. If the file is actually called studio 8.exe (with a space) then try:
wine 'studio 8.exe'
This will tell the shell to treat the space as part of the text rather than as a separator between commands.

[Tomanderland]

Your syntax is wrong. You are telling wine to run a program called "install".
You don't need an install command for wine. Just run the .exe file (from the correct location of course).

wine studio8.exe

You might also have problems with the spaces. In the command above you have studio 8.exe
The shell interprets this as two things, studio and 8.exe, which is why you shouldn't use spaces in file names in unix. If the file is actually called studio 8.exe (with a space) then try:
wine 'studio 8.exe'
This will tell the shell to treat the space as part of the text rather than as a separator between commands.

Thanks jacksaff,

the install there is actually part of the exe file name (install studio 8.exe).. I've tried putting the quotations around it a few times and i just keep getting the message i posted above.. should i try copy the whole cd onto my hard drive so i can rename the setup file with no spaces?

[ugm6hr]

Might be easiest to try the GUI way: Right-click the .exe file and select open with Wine.

Did you use the Ubuntu repo version of wine?

If that doesn't work - use terminal, but make sure you have configured your CD drive (/media/cdrom0) as D: (in configure Wine menu).

[Tomanderland]

Might be easiest to try the GUI way: Right-click the .exe file and select open with Wine.

Did you use the Ubuntu repo version of wine?

If that doesn't work - use terminal, but make sure you have configured your CD drive (/media/cdrom0) as D: (in configure Wine menu).

Ive tried right-clicking.. nothing happens not even an error message. Wine is configured right too, cd drive =D: and ive tried terminal and it just comes up with an error message saying it cant find the module.

[Patb]

should i try copy the whole cd onto my hard drive so i can rename the setup file with no spaces?

Worth a try Tomerland, just in case the location on your CD is the source of the problem. But I would have expected the thing to work with several of the methods you've tried already.

Good luck, Pat.