That's not off-topic at all, if the topic is "how the heck do I start using wine", which I think it is! So, you need to either mark that file executable, or run it from the commandline with wine instead of double-clicking on it. To mark it executable, do chmod +x /home/josiah/.cache/.fr-yzjVug/Setup-BGT.exe But maybe we should start even simpler. How about Plants Vs. Zombies? Try this: wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wisotool sh wisotool plantsvszombies cd ~/.wine/drive_c wine cmd /c run-plantsvszombies.bat Does that work? If so, try running sh wisotool and using it to install any of the games marked with [download]. See http://wiki.winehq.org/wisotool for more info about the wisotool game downloader.