opening exe file

[sgt.savage]

how do i run an exe file in fedora. I am trying to run the folding console for stanford University but the file will not open.

[smolloy]

Hmmmm..... I don't think you can run exe files in linux. I.e. you can't run programs that have been compiled for windows. Is this what you mean??

[sgt.savage]

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...ing/linux.html

this is the site that shows how to use it but i don't understand

[worker201]

To launch: To use this program, make sure that you can execute it (chmod +x FAH5-Linux.exe) and then run it ./FAH5-Linux.exe

What's not to get?

% chmod +x FAH5-Linux.exe
% ./FAH5-Linux.exe

[sgt.savage]

"chmod: too few arguments"

[carlosponti]

it should just have the two arguments

will look like this in the command prompt:

[user@localhost folder] chmod +x FAH5-Linux.exe
[user@localhost folder] ./FAH5-Linux.exe

[mactabilis]

You can try wine to open exe, www.winehq.org/site/download-rh

IT may work

[AimHigh54]

Im having the same problem w/ fedora... I tried the latest version of wine, and it still wont open any .exe files. Is there some driver or program I can get that will let me run .exe progams?

[rcgreen]

Even though the file has an exe extension, it is
apparently a linux executable. So, as has been stated,
if the file permissions are set properly, you should be
able to run it directly. If not, maybe you inadvertently
downloaded the windows version.

[fernape]

Yes, it is a Linux Executable:

~$ file FAH504-Linux.exe
FAH504-Linux.exe: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

If you type:

chmod 700 FAH504-Linux.exe

and then exec the file with ./FAH504-Linux.exe it should work.
If not, please copy-paste the error.

Best Regards