DaVince wrote: > Try moving or deleting /home/your_username/.wine, if you haven't done so yet. Also try removing ALL Wine packages you see in Synaptic and then ONLY install the wine1.2 package (preferrably from the Wine PPA). > > If Wine installs okay, try running a Windows app through the terminal and tell us what kind of terminal output you see. k ill do that but how do i run a windows application in terminal what i used to get them over to linux is put them on a 16gb flashdrive and transfer them from another computer. then i would just rightclick and reconfigure all exes to run with wine instead so when i double clicked them in opened either a new wine desktop or added the program to my currently opened one,