[Wine] Total noob question: Wine runs .exe but nothing happens.

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 12:50:16 CDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:43 PM, MacFall <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I am a fairly new Ubuntu user. I just started using Wine and I'm trying to install a program. I downloaded the install file, set the permissions so it would run as an executable, and opened it in Wine. It opens a new button in the taskbar that says "opening [program].exe", which runs for a few seconds - and then, nothing happens.
>
> Halp?
>
Run it in the terminal. Post the debug messages.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a37de3282d447376d2220d20a278ae52258551a4

John



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