Questions tagged [wine]
Wine is a software compatibility layer that allows Windows programs to be run on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
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To install Wine, remove graphics driver - wut?
I have been troubleshooting display problems (my computer was using default Ubuntu drivers and I finally managed to get the proprietary fglrx-update to work instead. I noticed that one of the apt-get ...
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Adobe on Ubuntu 14.10
I want to install Adobe Master Collection CS6 on Ubuntu.
I've installed Wine. ( the newest version. What I have allready done:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo ...
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Wine 1.6 USB Mouse Detection
I have a Perixx MX3000 mouse with 5 fully customizable profiles with different speeds, colors, and button binding. The problem is, its software is not made for Linux based operating systems, so I ...
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Why does wine leave so much leftover data? [duplicate]
When I apt-get install wine it was like a few hundred megabyte download, but when I purge it it was 21kb...
Then I deleted the .wine folder thinking it was the cause.
I ran apt-get install wine ...
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How to get rid of annoying Photoshop hover info message? It cannot be discarded and appears on all screens
I have Photoshop CS 6 on Ubuntu 14.04. When I hover over some tool or button in Photoshop, a description message will appear (showing what this tool is, and so on).
However, it somehow freezes and ...
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How to fix error while installing wine, clamak, apache2 etc?
How can I fix the following error while installing wine, clamak, apache2, etc?
error: "N: Ignoring file 'getdeb.list.bck' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename ...
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How do I install “Slender” through Wine or PlayOnLinux?
I'm currently trying to install wine 1.5.9raw 3 in order to play 'Slender' through PlayOnLinux, but as I try to run it, my laptop says it cannot find that particular wine version. Can I download it ...
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Wine - cups-bsd but it is not going to be installed and more [duplicate]
On a Ubuntu 14.04 server
sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
command not found: add-apt-repository
I have to run
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-...
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Error running .exe compiled with i586-mingw32msvc-g++ and SFML
So well, I'm fighting with WINE and MinGW32 right now.
So I have a file, sortem.cpp which is compiled with a Makefile and linked and all from that Makefile.
sortem.cpp
#include <windows.h>
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How to remove wine-1.7.34 completely
I have tried a lot of different commands, but nothing helped.
sudo apt-get remove wine --purge
sudo apt-get --purge remove wine
sudo apt-get auto remove
Wine is still available. Wine ...
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why Wine can not find file in app folder
Trying to run an app in app folder with this command:
wine file.exe
results in this error message:
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\file.exe"
Why do I get this error message?
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How can I improve my game performance on Wine?
After downloading Ubuntu 14.10, I decided to download Steam using wine so I could play a couple of new games that I brought (Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim). The installations were successful, however ...
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How can I run a program (wine) as a distinct user by shortcut?
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to run wine under a different account for security reasons. I also want to access it from different accounts. So I made an account called wine and now I want a way ...
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How can I install ia32-libs on ubuntu 14.04? [duplicate]
I want to install Adobe Air 64-bit on Ubuntu 14.04 , but I need install ia32-libs dependency, I tried to install ia32-libs, but I got an error message:
khan@raselkhan:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-...
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Unable to install Wine on Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04:
When I try to install wine, it wants to remove lots of packages. (The list is far too long. Not just one or two packages.)
What do you recommend?
$ sudo apt-...
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Rosetta Stone network communication error
I know there are lots of Rosetta Stone questions, but I've not seen this problem yet.
Everything installed great with wine, appears to functioning well, but I can't get into the actual lessons ...
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Unknown error: '<class 'KeyError'>' ("The cache has no package named wine-staging-i386")
There is an error sign on my Ubuntu panel which states the error given in the title. I used sudo apt-get update but it gave me no errors. However the error sign persists.
How do I fix this?
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Can Sony Vegas Pro run in Wine?
I'm not very familiar with Wine, and my Windows installation screwed up. So basically, I want to use Sony Vegas Pro, and I'm out of a Windows operating system. Is it possible to get Vegas Pro to run ...
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Can't Install wine without dependencies [duplicate]
Followed this guide to install wine.
After adding repository installed wine using:
sudo apt-get install wine1.7
But I get the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: ...
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How do I fix weird graphical glitches and Wine problems?
Using Ubuntu 14.04 with LXDE is installed.
However, I encounter really weird things when connecting to the server via VNC. When first connecting, I usually see this (and it's alright!):
But after ...
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Low fps in wine/playonlinux, not changing after changing settings
When I'm playing a game in wine/playonlinux my fps are kinda low.
In LoL I had about 180fps on highest settings on windows. Guild Wars 2 was working fine on windows too. There I had about 50 to 60fps (...
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Paired Bluetooth device does not connect, 14.04 Desktop
I have a bluetooth GPS device which has successfully paired, shows in the list of bluetooth devices.
However, I seem unable to connect to it to allow my satnav software to use it (PC Navigator 14 ...
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Run Windows Java program in Ubuntu 12.04 without Wine
If a Windows program (*.msi) was written in Java, is there a way for me to extract the contents and install it taking advantage of Java's cross-platform capabilities? I'd like to install it bypassing ...
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[Wine/PoL]Skyrim cannot properly detect my graphics card
I have an AMD R9-285 and installed the 14.5 driver from AMD.
display: :0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
OpenGL version ...
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Error while trying to run Skype via Wine in Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
As many previous Windows users do, I hate what Microsoft has done with the Linux version of Skype. A lot of my premium features are missing, and I desperately need them for my job. I installed wine ...
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what can i do, i can't install wine
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an
impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required
packages have not yet been created ...
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How to run Skyrim in wine using primusrun?
When I cd into a directory containing a .exe that I can run in Wine, how do I run that .exe with primusrun?
Specifically, I have installed Skyrim via Steam on PlayOnLinux. I've successfully run other ...
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problem installing MS Office2010 (64 bit) in Ubuntu 14.04 Wine [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and I could not install MS Office 2010 or any office version using wine. A message pop up says "Office encountered an error during setup" but other *.exe files run perfectly. ...
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cant install wine on ubuntu 12.04
I have try everything, it always appears like
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that ...
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Evernote with wine. Titles of notes invisible
I run Evernote 5.8.1.6061 in Wine under Lubuntu 14.04.
The title of the notes are not visible, I attached a picture of the situation.
How can I fix it? It's only since I upgraded to the newer ...
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Adobe Creative Cloud in Wine?
Hello once again wonderful people! I'm just wondering if anyone here installed the Adobe Creative Cloud client successfully through wine. If anyone has, I'd really appreciate some help :) Thanks in ...
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mono package for wine [duplicate]
I have an installation of wine on my Ubuntu 14.04 (minimal) system (with xfce):
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends wine
I wanted to run .NET applications with it. When I use a GUI (File ...
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Which windows version is best compatible with wine?
I am applying to do some online consulting work with a company that states "having a computer with Windows OS" as a requirement. I don't have Windows but I hope to use their software under Wine. In ...
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How to change the directory .wine of Wine to a different directory
I have Ubuntu installed on a rather small SSD. I want to be able to install Windows programs using Wine, but they have to be installed on the HDD.
By default, Wine creates a folder in the home ...
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Unable to download wine with software center or terminal [duplicate]
I'm trying to download wine 1.7 with the software center and terminal, 3 MB remained of download progress , but when i want to continue the download , it gives me a 404 error. i rebooted the system ...
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Error trying to install wine in Ubuntu 14.10: missing or conflicting packages [duplicate]
I already tried to install it with the terminal as well as with the ubuntu-software-center, but I always get this:
This error could be caused by required additional software packages which
are ...
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Photoshop CS6 on Wine Performance Improvement
So I'm running Photoshop CS6 on Wine on Ubuntu 14xx. My issue is once I get deeper into work (fairly large images), the performance drops...a lot. When I ran Photoshop on Windows using the same PC, I ...
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How to configure wine to install Evernote?
What are the DLL's that I have to install before trying Evernote?
I was looking for a detailed answer like this one : How to install and configure wine
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Unable to install wine on ubuntu 14.04 lts [duplicate]
I am using following article to fix this issue:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2246183
This is the output I get:
aditya@aditya-Vostro-3446:~/$ sudo apt-get purge wine
[sudo] password for ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 not responding
I was reinstall Ubuntu, remove Window OS, Format all my HHD and when Im using computer normal, I dont open more program( include: FireFox, Skype), on FireFox I opened 8 tabs. program run in background ...
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Wine As Root Service
I have a service that runs a Java program as root. The Java program may start a Wine process.
The obvious problem is, I cannot run wine as root. For some security reason, even though my machine is ...
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Message says downloading wine-unity3d-installer (N/A MiB) appears, does not go away
A zenity message saying "downloading wine-unity3d-installer (N/A MiB)" will sometimes appear while I am doing something and just show a flashing download bar forever.
I can force close it but a few ...
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Can't get windows application to run in Wine
I just installed Ubuntu and would like to be able to run a Windows application using Wine. I installed Wine, and using it, installed the Windows application. The installation went fine and it created ...
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Viber through Wine, crash on calling with unexpected error
12.04 Precise 32 bit system, currently have Viber running under Wine due to system architecture.
Gotten it to install and messaging works as a charm although upon firing a call it quits
with an ...
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How can I install the Java Runtime Environment in Wine?
I have download a game and opened it with Wine, but it can't run this game, because the program required the Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0. The program recommends this link: http://java.com/en/...
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Wine runs fine from .wine folder, but not from flash drive
I've done some reading on this and found out that there are some complications with Wine running on flash drives. While I don't completely understand why these complications exist (meaning that I'm a ...
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How can I get a program I run in Wine to lock to my launcher?
I installed Evernote with Wine on Ubuntu 14.04, and it works great. I'd love to have the icon stay on the Launcher for speedy access, but when I right-click and select that option, all I get is the ...
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Which is the best windows emulator for ubuntu 14.04?
I have wine installed on my system but is not able to run games like prince of persia the two thrones, Grandmaster (chess) properly. Hence, I'm looking for other options. Even with wine, is any ...
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Leage of Legends doesn't launch due to "Can't connect to pvp.net" error
I used PlayOnLinux to download League of Legends, I managed to get it updated, had to leave it overnight working.
Next day, while logging it, it left errors as "Cannot login in server; try(5)", and ...
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Problem with running application supported with microsoft .net framework 4.0.30319
I have an application which i want to run with wine in my ubuntu. I installed wine properly and also all the dlls and support files. But i am unable to open my application.
It shows always an error ...
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