On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 02:20:57PM -0500, Mike Goral wrote:
> Just installed this operating system and am slowly learning. One thing that
> puzzles me is when I download an installation program to the desktop, I
> can't figure out how to execute it. For instance, if I download a media
> player, I'll get an icon on my desktop for an exe program to install the
> player. In Windows, I would just double click this and it would run to
> install the program. This doesn't work on this operating system and I'm
> stumped. BTW, only very modestly computer literate. . Thanks in advance
> for any help.
Hi Mike G,
short answer:
you simply cannot run Windows programs (exe files) on linux.
long answer:
there are tools to run specific (not all!) windows programs on unixes,
the most common ones are wine, winex, cedega, crossover-office (all
kind of variations of the same, actually); or you could run a virtual
windows machine using vmware or the like. Some of these keywords should
get you further when typed into a search engine on the web ;)
cheers,
Tim
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