I have a already installed game which is .exe but to open it I have to always go to the folder or type commands to open it with wine. I don't know how to add it to the applications menu where I can just easily search and open the game without running any commands or using wine every time.
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Will Unity allow making custom launcher icons from .desktop files or via menu editing system? (Right now the launcher doesn't give the option to "keep in launcher" on all programs.  For some programs I use, I have to make custom launchers or .desktop files.  For instance, daily blender builds are generally just folders with an executable.  In basic Gnome or KDE, I can make a new menu entry with the menu editing system. Then, I can also add it to Docky either from the menu or by dragging a .desktop file to it. Unity launcher doesn't support drag and drop, so thats not a bug or anything, but when I open a .desktop file, it has unpredictable results. Most time it will not have "keep in launcher". Sometime it will have a pinnable item without the .desktop's icon, and if I pin the item to the launcher, it will not call upon the program again after closing it. I've also gotten it to just work with a .desktop file for celtx.
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Is it possible to install FIFA 13 and Origin using Wine.  My graphics card is ATI and its driver is installed in Ubuntu. I wanted to install FIFA 13 using wine. When I tried FIFA 12, it was installed and getting freezed on the game launch.
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I have Ubuntu installed on a rather small SSD. I want to be able to install Windows programs using Wine, but they have to be installed on the HDD.   By default, Wine creates a folder in the home directory /home/&lt;user&gt;/.wine where the installed Windows programs are saved. I want to change this to another location, such as /media/HDD/.wine  Is there any possibility to achieve this in a simple way?
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Usually, right clicking on a file, selecting "Open with" followed by "Choose another app..." brings up the following menu which also includes installed apps, so that one may be set as the default application for the file type:    However, when trying to open a file using a Windows 10 Store app and the above method, the app is not listed. I can open the app, then open the file from within it, however this is less convenient.   So far I have tried to use the app's exe file (CodeWriter.exe), but this does not work without an app container.  To reitterate - I am not asking for suggestions for workarounds as I can open the file; I am specifcally asking how to set a store app as the default application when it is not in the above list.
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Just wondering, are there any projects like WINE, but for Mac software? That is, can we use a program that acts like a compatibility layer to run Mac apps?
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I want to launch the wine executable (Version 2.12), but I get the following error ($=shell prompt):  $ wine bash: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory $ /usr/bin/wine bash: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory $ cd /usr/bin $ ./wine bash: ./wine: No such file or directory   However, the file is there:  $ which wine /usr/bin/wine   The executable definitely is there and no dead symlink:  $ stat /usr/bin/wine   File: /usr/bin/wine   Size: 9712            Blocks: 24         IO Block: 4096   regular file Device: 802h/2050d      Inode: 415789      Links: 1 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root) Access: 2017-07-13 13:53:00.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2017-07-08 03:42:45.000000000 +0200 Change: 2017-07-13 13:53:00.817346043 +0200  Birth: -   It is a 32-bit ELF:  $ file /usr/bin/wine /usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),  dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32,  BuildID[sha1]=eaf6de433d8196e746c95d352e0258fe2b65ae24, stripped   I can get the dynamic section of the executable:  $ readelf -d /usr/bin/wine Dynamic section at offset 0x1efc contains 27 entries:   Tag        Type                         Name/Value  0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libwine.so.1]  0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libpthread.so.0]  0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libc.so.6]  0x0000001d (RUNPATH)                    Library runpath: [$ORIGIN/../lib32]  0x0000000c (INIT)                       0x7c000854  0x0000000d (FINI)                       0x7c000e54  [more addresses without file names]   However, I cannot list the shared object dependencies using ldd:  $ ldd /usr/bin/wine /usr/bin/ldd: line 117: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory   strace shows:  execve("/usr/bin/wine", ["wine"], 0x7fff20dc8730 /* 66 vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fstat(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 4), ...}) = 0 write(2, "strace: exec: No such file or di"..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory ) = 40 getpid()                                = 23783 exit_group(1)                           = ? +++ exited with 1 +++   Edited to add suggestion by @jww: The problem appears to happen before dynamically linked libraries are requested, because no ld debug messages are generated:  $ LD_DEBUG=all wine bash: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory   Even when only printing the possible values of LD_DEBUG, the error occurs instead   $ LD_DEBUG=help wine bash: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory   Edited to add suggestion of @Raman Sailopal: The problem seems to lie within the executable, as copying the contents of /usr/bin/wine to another already created file produces the same error  root:bin # cp cat testcmd      root:bin # testcmd --help Usage: testcmd [OPTION]... [FILE]... Concatenate FILE(s) to standard output. [rest of cat help page]  root:bin # dd if=wine of=testcmd   18+1 records in 18+1 records out 9712 bytes (9.7 kB, 9.5 KiB) copied, 0.000404061 s, 24.0 MB/s  root:bin # testcmd bash: /usr/bin/testcmd: No such file or directory   What is the problem or what can I do to find out which file or directory is missing?    uname -a:  Linux laptop 4.11.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 28 10:40:17 CEST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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I want to run MS Office on Ubuntu and have found messages saying you can do it with Wine, but I don't know what Wine is.
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I've got a file said to contain information I was looking for. Unfortunately it is an executable instead of DOC (as it was meant to be) and the site I've download it from looks suspicious for me. If I was not using Linux, I'd run it on a VM or a separate PC. But running Linux, do I need to worry, or can I just run it with Wine? Can Wine system be infected?
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I usually use PlayOnLinux to manage my WINE versions via the interface, however, I would like to change my "system" WINE version (the version that loads when I double-click a file) so that I can just double-click on files to run them in the latest version of WINE even if they're the same "wineprefix". I have read the answer to  but the versions in that repository only go up to version 1.8.   I would like the ability to make my system version of WINE 2.3 and keep it updated to the latest version automatically, so I don't want to manually compile or download packages all the time.  Also, if possible, I would like my system version to be a 32-bit one, and to instead use PlayOnLinux if I need a 64-bit wineprefix.  I am running Xubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit.  EDIT: I thought I'd include a list of commands to wipe &amp; update Wine (EDIT 2: updated for 18.04, EDIT 3: Updated again for Ubuntu 18.04 in 2019):  # Remove old Wine rm -Rf ~/.wine sudo apt purge -y wine*  # Add key and repo sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386  wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key sudo apt-key add winehq.key sudo add-apt-repository -y 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'  sudo add-apt-repository -y 'ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport'  rm -f winehq.key  # Install sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade -y sudo apt install -y winehq-devel playonlinux  # This is optional, but some programs need it. sudo sed -i -e 's/scope = 1/scope = 0/g' /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf   # Did it work? wine --version   Thanks to everyone who answered. This doesn't include changing Winearch, see below for that.
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How can I add an application to the Open With menu (shown after right-clicking) for a given file type, without making that file always open with that application?  In this specific instance, I'd like to the option to open an Web site location (.URL) file with TextEdit, while still defaulting to Safari.    I'm running OS 10.7.4.
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I have an iPhone and run Ubuntu on all of my personal computers. Since I did not want to keep a separate partition with Windows on it for the sole purpose of running iTunes, I attempted to install It using Wine.   I installed Wine 1.4 from the Software Center and installed iTunes 10.6.3. When I tried to run it I got a slew of error messages. I hopped over to google where it was suggested that I install it through PlayOnLinux. I did so with the same result. Further googling revealed that iTunes 10.6.x is confirmed to work with Wine 1.5.1 and up.   I installed Wine 1.5.1 following the instructions I found and was unable to get it to open. I did the same with 1.5.9 with the same results. I opened the Package Manager and installed the Wine 1.5.9 packages through it, and it appears to have installed properly.   When trying to install iTunes I got he error "This iTunes installer requires Windows Vista 64 bit or later". Realizing that Wine uses XP as a default I ran winecfg and changed it to Windows 7. This changed nothing and I tried changing it through winetricks to no avail. I even changed it to Vista with the same results.   Does anyone know what is going wrong here and how to fix it? Thanks
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Please note, this is an informative QA post rather than a question specific, due to this issue popping up many a time.  QUESTION / ISSUE  How to solve the issue of installing IE8 (Internet Explorer) in wine (any version - to my knowledge).  Related Wine Errors:  Terminal install method  Installing IE8:  winetricks -q ie8   should give you a similar error:  Executing w_do_call ie8 Executing load_ie8 Executing wine iexplore -unregserver Executing w_do_call msls31 msls31 already installed, skipping Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: iexplore.exe itircl itss jscript msctf mshtml shdoclc shdocvw shlwapi urlmon wininet xmllite Executing winetricks_early_wine regedit /S C:\windows\Temp\_ie8\override-dll.reg Using builtin override for following DLLs: updspapi Executing winetricks_early_wine regedit /S C:\windows\Temp\_ie8\override-dll.reg Downloading http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks_files/winetest.cat to /home/user/.cache/winetricks/ie8 --2016-09-08 23:03:12--  http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks_files/winetest.cat Resolving winezeug.googlecode.com (winezeug.googlecode.com)... 66.102.1.82, 2a00:1450:400c:c06::52 Connecting to winezeug.googlecode.com (winezeug.googlecode.com)|66.102.1.82|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2016-09-08 23:03:13 ERROR 404: Not Found.  ------------------------------------------------------ Downloading http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks_files/winetest.cat failed ------------------------------------------------------   GUI Install via Winetricks GUI method  or using the GUI method, you should see a error dialog similar to this:
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I am currently using 2 versions of steam, the Linux one for games compatible with Linux, and the windows version in wine for games which are not compatible. I was wondering if it is possible to get wine to work on games in Linux steam (the one not using wine) , so I do not have to switch back and forth between the two steams.
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Somehow I went to open a shortcut and Windows couldn't find the target but instead of pointing the shortcut to the .exe it pointed the .lnk file handler to the .exe, so now all my .lnk files are trying to be opened by the borderlands game.  What's going on?  I'm guessing I can do it by resetting the .lnk entry in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, but I don't know what to set it to.
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I copied all of the files like in  tutorial, but I have no luck launching PS. I also tried running the installer with WINE, but needed AIR and it wouldn't connect to the adobe servers.  Also, I (think I) removed all of the libraries I installed with winetricks (except for the VC++ ones) and deleted the files I copied from my Windows machine. This is all perfectly safe, right?
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I need to use two different Windows applications, one works well with Wine 1.4 but not on Wine 1.5 and the other application works well with the later version but not with the former.  Is there a way to have both versions of Wine installed, specifying which application should run with which Wine version?
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I'm able to locate stuff with the dash home then drag it down to the launcher bar on the left of the desktop, but what if the application installed via Wine isn't found via the dash search? I've right clicked on the application in the .wine directory and found no options to create a launcher either.