On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:41, shelbijoseph<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hai Friends, > > I was using wine happily with ubuntu 8.04. Now I have ubuntu 9.04 clean install on a new machine. I could install wine but when I open wine-program-accessories-notepad nothing happens. Also configure wine does n't funtion. > My guess would be that some archive program associated EXE files with itself.... Easy way: Run Wine from the console. If that works, you might want to ask the ubuntu forum how to fix file associations on Ubuntu. Gert