Any idea how to instal exe executable in Linux or Unix? I saw it runing in my colegue laptop but dont wana ask him, any help wil be....

Wine.

Hi scarra3
wat is this wine n how to use them for instaling exe, thx in advance

It a tool that you run on linux that lets you run .exe programs but it does not work with all.
Go to the terminal and type either sudo apt-get install wine or yum install wine depending if your on a red hat based or a debian based and its free and when you install it then you just click on the exe it will run.

Khool

WOW...sHoKiNg

First I thought it must be a joke but when googled found this on Softpedia amazing


Here are some key features of "Wine" I extracted from Softpedia:

Binary Compatibility:

· Loads Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Windows 3.x and DOS programs and libraries
· Win32 compatible memory layout, exception handling, threads and processes
· Designed for POSIX compatible operatings systems (eg. Linux and FreeBSD)
· ``bug-for-bug'' compatibility with Windows

Graphics:

· X11-based graphics allows remote display to any X terminal
· X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) Fonts
· DirectX support for games (limited Direct3D support)
· Printing via PostScript driver or legacy native Win16 printer drivers
· Enhanced Metafile (EMF) and Windows Metafile (WMF) driver
· Desktop-in-a-box or mixable windows
· Windows MultiMedia (WinMM) layer support with builtin codecs

Allows Windows program to interface with:

· Sound devices via ALSA, OSS, ARTS, JACK, and libaudio etc
· Multi-lingual keyboards and CJK input method support via XIM
· Modems, serial devices
· Networks (TCP/IP and IPX)
· ASPI Scanners
· Windows Tablets via XInput (eg. Wacom)

Wine API:

· Designed for source and binary compatibility with Win32 code
· Win32 API test suite to ensure compatibility
· Compilable on a wide range of C compilers
· Permits mixing of Win32 and POSIX code
· Permits mixing of ELF (.so) and PE (.dll/.exe) binaries in one address space
· Win32 compatible header files
· Automatically generated API documentation
· Resource compiler
· Message compiler
· IDL compiler
· extensive Unicode support
· Internationalization -- Wine supports 16 languages
· Built-in debugger and configurable trace messages
· External memory checker support using Valgrind
· Sample programs

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Many fixes for crypto certificates support.
· A lot of MSHTML improvements.
· Various fixes to support the Left 4 Dead 2 DRM.
· A number of OLE marshalling fixes.
· More Listview improvements.
· Various bug fixes.

hey...say its HOT amazing... whenever I saw linux in someones system I wish if it could support exe.... now I'm gonna install it, tell me which flavor of linux is best...I mean friendly

thanks bro

Really its coool..

Here is how you I installed wine using Yum, I posted it be4 in related topic::