- Windows Executable (.exe)
- If you, after
having searched around the Internet for a Linux version or a viable
Linux replacement for the Windows program you want to install, find
that there is no Linux program that will replace it, there is a slight
chance the Windows executable will run on Linux[5].
This is not a proper solution to your problem, not in any way, but for
some people it's the only way. To run Windows executables you need to
install a package called wine. When that is done, run the command
wine PATH
in the terminal where PATH is the path to your EXE. If the user carl
has an EXE called test.exe inside his home folder, he'll run the
command wine /home/carl/test.exe to execute it. Be
adviced that running Windows programs in WINE is often very buggy and
probably won't work to your satisfaction; very often it doesn't work at
all!
If the executable you ran was an installer wizard,
your program will be installed in a hidden folder located inside your
home folder. If the user carl has installed a program called Test, it will probably be installed to the folder "/home/carl/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Test"
(remember to include quotes around paths with spaces in them when
typing them in a terminal). EXEs from inside this folder can be run
with wine. You might want to create at launcher/shortcut for your desktop to easily start up your app.
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