On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Leanbod <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi i've been trying to get an old game (Dune 2) which i used to play through DOS to work on Linux systems, i've not used this before and am in need of an 'idiot's guide to Linux' > i've gotten as far as having unpacked the file and installed it on terminal, it now to the point of running the Setup.exe > however when i try to run the setup, i get the following command line error; > > > [/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.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. > zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE or > /home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE.zip, and cannot find /home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE.ZIP, period. > > > Anyone able to help with this? You need to run it with: $ wine SETUP.EXE Wine's DOS support isn't perfect though, so if it doesn't work well, try DosBOX. -- -Austin
