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04-26-2011 #1
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cant install or use windows applications in wine
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04-26-2011 #2
Hi pehorts and welcome to Linuxforums.
If you must test Windows software, I think the most practical solution is to run Windows XP inside a virtual machine such as VirtualBox. The free version is installable with the "Synaptic" package manager in your menu. The non-free version, which has a few more bells and whistles, is available from their website. Once installed, follow the procedure to install Windows inside a virtual machine.
Wine runs some Windows programs well, some fairly and others poorly if at all. You might want to check the WineHQ applications database for which programs have been tried and how they run through wine. As you point out, wine is heavily used for gaming but other Windows applications and programs will run with it too.
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04-27-2011 #3
not all of windows application can runned under wine, wine is just a bridge, just a hope to run some application at linux OS.
Better you use an alternative software/application with search here Windows and OS X Software Alternatives | Linux App Finder the result will show to you, such as if you find photoshop you will know all of alternative application in linux with same function as photoshop like gimp etc...
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04-27-2011 #4
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04-27-2011 #5
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04-28-2011 #6
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thanks guys, I have tried to mark the applications as executable in the properties dialogue but to no avail. I will run windows xp as a virtual machine.