Me: Hey Linux can you open my .exe for me? Windows just makes me doubleclick the file so it should be easy.

Linux:

Executes Under Windows

If the file is a windows file, it will not run under Linux on it’s own. So if that’s the case, you could try running it under a windows emulator (WINE). If it’s not compatible with wine, then you won’t be able to execute it under Linux.

Before you can start, you will need to install wine. The steps you need to install wine will vary on the linux platform you are on. You can probably google “Ubuntu install wine”, if for example, you’re installing ubuntu.

Once you have wine installed, then you’d be able to execute these commands.

cd abc/ wine info.exe

Execute Under Linux

if you know this file to run under linux, then you’ll want to execute these commands:

Change to your abc directory

cd abc/

Then you’ll want to change permissions to allow all users to execute this file (a+x). you could also allow just the user to execute (u+x)

chmod a+x info.exe

Launch the program, the ./ tells the command line to look in the current path for the file to execute (if the ‘current’ directory isn’t in the $PATH environment variable.

./info.exe

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