[Wine] Re: Wine fails to install Adobe PS

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Tony_photoplus wrote:
> I have tried a few rtimes now to install Abobe PS7 (not a crack) on the latest Linux Mint and now on Ubuntu 8.10 64bit.  I am having the same problem in both.  Is it because my new comp is a 64bit?
> 
> An error occurred while loading the archive.
> [/media/cdrom0/Autoplay.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: /media/cdrom0/Autoplay.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
> zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/cdrom0/Autoplay.exe or
> /media/cdrom0/Autoplay.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/cdrom0/Autoplay.exe.ZIP, period.
> 
> 


It appears that your system thinks autoplay.exe is an archive and is trying to extract it instead of run it. 

Try running the actual installer (probably named setup.exe) from the command line. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f3515230c198befe0279d32c448d9c8da63be66f