What if I want to install Windows software using PlayOnLinux, but the only .exe file I can select is a self-extracting archive? How do I extract the actual main program file that PlayOnLinux is asking for?
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I have tested two exe-files with File Roller and Engrampa (fork of file-roller
). They were extracted normally. All we need is to have p7zip-full
package installed (as @karel already noted).
The file
utility reports that they have two file-types:
- PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, Nullsoft Installer self-extracting archive
- PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows (for example 7-Zip and WinRAR from Windows create such files when SFX ZIP or SFX RAR was chosen).
Note: the SFX RAR archive could not be opened with this method on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. You can use Wine for this purpose here.
file
(first was PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, Nullsoft Installer self-extracting archive, second - PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows).