An executable is a program contained in one file. This file is often referred to as an executable because of the Windows extension for executables(.EXE).

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can't execute some exe files in win7 32bit virtualbox VM share folder which is created by ubuntu 64bit host

I installed ubuntu12.10 arm64 version, then installed virtualbox 64bit and win7 32bit VM. I created /mnt/share folder and shared it with win7. In win7 share folder, some exe files could be executed, ...
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How does .desktop file EXEC field work?

It's been several months I'm having this horrible problem. I'm currently using Unity 2D, and I manage my menu entries by using .desktop files, which is tiring. Is there a better way to manage them? ...
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Executable not running even after chmod'ing it

I am trying to run a BETA precompiled copy of rcracki .. but the problem is when I try to run the executable, it gives an error: I tried to format the snippet below into one code block, but it didn't ...
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How can I run an extracted .exe in WINE?

I have a program called BridgeM1. It is a front-end for the arcade music emulator M1. I read at the following link ( M1 and .lst files ) that I could use this program in WINE. The problem is I'm not ...
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Using x264 Win binary in Ubuntu

I like to work with standalone CLI binaries whether .jar or .exe Standalone .jar CLIs like PDFBox by Apache is cross platform & can be use in Win & *nix similarly, however... I currently use ...
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Problem with executing dssp (secondary structure assignment)

I followed a previous post to install dssp on ubuntu How to install dssp (secondary structure assignments) under 12.04? After the installation I tried to execute dssp which was in ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 “cant find” Executable files (NOT .exe's)

i am trying to run an executable file from ubuntu 11.10, and this happens for several different files. i try to run the file and it says "no such file or directory" it is not the file because the ...
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Wine won't configure!

I finally installed Wine (the program to run exe files) and it took a very long time to install. Now, I have a package configuration window that is pink and looks like this . I don't know what ...
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What GUI app allows to extract icons from .exe files?

Is there an graphical app that would allow me to extract icons from .exe files? I'm asking about a gui app as I would like to preview the icons beforehand.
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Unable to run Unetbootin

I tried to use Unetbootin on Ubuntu 12.04 but for some reason it would not run. No reaction at all. I have marked the file as executable. What am I doing wrong??
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Ubuntu 12.04 internal error executable path

I just installed the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system on my very old Sony Vaio desktop computer. The computer has 1gb of ram, with a 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor and two WD 80 ...
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Wine is not working. I Got “- /usr/lib/libgraph.so.1 is not a symbolic link” , while installing

I installed wine using following commands, sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo add-apt update sudo apt-get install wine1.3 after some processing it shows the following line in the ...
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Mounting Hard disk slows system down

I've installed Wine 1.5 on my Ubuntu 12.04. When I mount my Hard Disk that contains a lot of .exe files (97 GB) and open it, My Ubuntu slows down and I can't move my cursor any more, It moves but ...