[Wine] Error on opening, Non 7z Archive

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 13:13:25 CDT 2011


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:35 AM, zerogeer6 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I have right clicked and attempted to install using "Open with Windows Program Loader (WINE), through the WINE control
> panel, the WINE File Manager.. don't know what else to try at this point. I am stumped. Thank you for your help!
>
This will not work, or might not work the way you expect it.

The only known good way is to change directories to where the
installer is located and then invoke the wine program like this:

cd <path/to/installer>
wine <installer program>.exe

This is also in the FAQ.

James



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