Questions tagged [playonlinux]
Play on Linux is a front end for wine. Wine is a compatibility layer used to run windows based programs within Linux. Play on Linux simplifies the installation and tweaking required for some programs which are often run using wine, using pre-defined wizards supplied as part of the package.
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How to install Amazon free Kindle app on Ubuntu 16.04
I can find links to install Amazon Kindle on Ubuntu 14 and 18, but these do not work for 16.04. I assume I have to install the latest Amazon Kindle free app for PC first.
I have Wine (1:1.6.2-...
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Wine emulated Epic Games store cannot log in using Google account
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I am new to Linux gaming, and I want to install Rocket league on Ubuntu. Because Rocket League is Windows only, I need to use Wine to emulate it. Rocket league is (as far as I ...
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How can I install After Effects CC 2020 in Ubuntu 20.10
I changed my Operating system from windows to Ubuntu 20.10I want to know how to install After Effects CC 2020 in Ubuntu with wine or playonlinux or some other
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How to install RA3 uprising on ubuntu without origin?
Can anyone help me? I got a pc with ubuntu 20.04 LTS and i already got wine and playonlinux (and not-working-origin on playonlinux) and i got RA3 uprising game files from my windows pc with origin ...
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Is is possible to change one regional setting for Wine applications - use decimal dot instead of comma for numbers?
On my Ubuntu MATE1 18.04 LTS I use various applications driven by Wine and/or PlayOnLinux.
I see that for example Word 2007 think that I have comma as decimal number separator, this breaks some field ...
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FL Studio 20 on Ubuntu Studio Won't Run
been trying to get FL Studio to run on Ubuntu Studio 20.10 for the past two days now. I've tried downloading wine and it installs fine, but upon launching the application I receive an error that ...
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WINE and RAM issues
I was wondering if there is a way to increase the RAM in WINE. Lag is terrible while trying to play games via WINE
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winbind error - unable to setup corepath
Am trying to install MS Office 2016 by following the guide here:
How do I install MS Office 2016 on PlayOnLinux
However under preparations step 1, when I run the "winbindd -V" command I get ...
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Bash, using expect keyword
I have connected to a port like this:
nc hello-world.mygame.com 2000
which opens a small game like this:
Please enter your name
a
hello a,
Now I know that a specific number of repeated "a" ...
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Errors while installing Office 365
I'm trying to install Office 365 with Wine on Ubuntu 18.04 from the installer I downloaded with my account on Microsoft's website. Whenever I try opening the setup with Wine, I keep getting the same ...
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Install Wine and PlayOnLinux on server environments
Well, I'd like to follow the following tutorial on a server environment: https://eltallerdemiku.blogspot.com/2018/12/como-instalr-loquendo-en-linux-con.html
The point here is that I think I'm not ...
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Apache2 is not starting in Ubuntu 20.04
I'm facing problem with Ubuntu 20.04, I have been trying install PlayOnLinux after installing WINE. When installing PlayOnLinux by command I've removed some dependencies which I have forgotten.
I've ...
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libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Trying to install GTA San Andreas over PlayOnLinux but I got the error:
0009:err:wgl:init_opengl Failed to load libGL: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No> such file or directory
0009:...
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Zeus + Poseidon not running after update
after my ubuntu was updated to 20.04 shortly, my Zeus + Posidon game, which i used to play via steam running on wine, is not starting any more. There is just a black screen.
I start the steam via:
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Problem in installing MS word addons (e.g. Grammerly) using playonlinux
I have installed the MS-word using Playonlinux on Ubuntu (20.04) and I am looking for some help to install the plugins viz. Grammarly, Mendeley, etc. I tried to manually install "Grammarly" ...
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How to link Mendeley plugin and MS word in Playonlinux
i want to use Mendeley and MS word 2013 in PlayOnLinux , Is that possible? I installed mendeley in the same virtual drive of MS office, so i manage to install the mendeley plugin for word however it ...
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Play a mp3 file using python
I have this code called CountDown Program. What my program does is:
Count down from 60.
Play a sound file (alarm.wav) when the countdown reaches zero. This means the code needs to do the following:
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What performace issues can I expect while using Adobe XD using wine?
I am new to designing and my team uses Adobe XD only. It seems the only choice I have to use it on Ubuntu is using wine for it.
I want to know what performance issue will be there while using Adobe XD ...
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E-Sword and PlayonLinux
I have a weird question. I do have E-Sword bible app on PlayonLinux. It works great. The thing is, E-Sword will only open when I open PlayonLinux first. I will have to use PlayonLinux and then open E-...
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Problems installing a windows .exe using wine, winetricks and playitonlinux
The exe in question is TAV.exe, available here: https://tav-releases.translated.com/TAV.exe It is an app that shows my availability for work. Formerly, it was based on java, and there was a ...
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Is it possible to run XSplit?
I want to use XSplit as a webcam in skype, so that I can have 2 people screen-sharing in a meeting. If this is possible, what libraries would be required? I have already tried, but the installer just ...
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PlayOnLinux not working with on wxPython 4.1.0 - ImportError: No Module named wxversion, needs to be wx.version instead
The latest version of wxPython doesn't support the wxversion module. Instead the information is available as wx.version.
Is there any suggested work around to this? Thanks!
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change google drive sync folder name
I installed Google drive sync app using play on linux. By default I did everything it prompted me to do, and ended up syncing my drive in documents/Google Drive (1). I want to change the location of ...
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Installing Playonlinux games onto a usb
I downloaded ubuntu on my chromebook using crouton so i can play games but sadly I only have 16gb I have a 32gb usb and thats where I install all my games so I want to know how to install games onto ...
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Add fonts / Adobe / PlayonLinux?
Can I add all the fonts that I have in my Ubuntu system into Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator with PlayOnLinux?
Both Photoshop and Illustrator runs great; however,both Adobe software has the ...
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Question for wine and playonlinux
Today I downloaded the iso of microsoft office 2019 on the pc linux ubuntu 20.04 LTS and I did sudo apt install wine64 and I downloaded wine and then after I downloaded the playonthelinux application ...
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PPA for Wine and playonlinux for 20.04?
I do have PlayonLinux with Ubuntu 20.04.It does works great with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe illustrator.
I would like to add the PPA for PlayonLinux and Wine.
What id the actual PPA's for both ...
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Is it possible to install Microsoft Office 2020 on Ubuntu
I recently downloaded PlayOnLinux and it only offers MS Office 2000/2003/2007/2010/2013/2016. I probably shouldn't say "only" it's plenty, but can I install the 2020 version?
Maybe not useful but I ...
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How to remove wine packages?
I'm using ubuntu 18.04. I had installed wine and playonlinux using following commands:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
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How to install another copy of the program via PlayOnLinux?
I would like to install another copy of Windows game via PlayOnLinux for testing and experimenting, under a new Wine prefix. How do I do that?
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How to add another program to an existing Wine prefix with PlayOnLinux?
I have installed Hearthstone, a digital card game, via PlayOnLinux. Now I would like to install Innkeeper, a card manager utility for the game, under the same Wine prefix. Ideally the game and the ...
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I have install MS Office 2016 with Wine but MS Fonts are not available
I followed instructions in this thread (How do I install MS Office 2016 on PlayOnLinux) to install MS Office 2016 using POL / Wine. The process worked without any issues. Now when I load documents in ...
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Using grep or find to get all files created in 2018 with "log" extension [closed]
Directory contains catalogs that have the following format: «20180201».
I want to Get the list of all files created in 2018 with the "log" extension and their sizes.
Can anyone explain me this?
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How to install updates on Microsft Office 2016 installed on PlayOnLinux
How can I install updates to Microsoft Office 2016 installed on Ubuntu 18.04 using PlayOnLinux?
I was able to install Microsoft Office 2016 using PlayOnLinux (POL). However clinking Word->Account->...
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Regarding using MetaTrader 4 with PlayOnLinux
I am using PlayOnLinux for using MetaTrader 4, a Windows application.
But the problem is that I have to install MT4 every time to open it.
Is there any option to open MT4 easily?
I am installing ...
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Upgrading Wine on Ubuntu 18.04
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I am running Ubuntu 18.04.
I am trying to install a Windows program using PlayOnLinux and want to use the latest stable Wine version (5.0), as I am having problems with the current version of ...
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Why can't PlayOnLinux find the xterm on 18.04?
So I am trying to install PlayOnLinux with the terminal using these commands.
$ wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
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Searching and printing in linux
Question:- Write a grep command that prints out all the lines containing the word 'Good'.
There are 42000 lines in an Excel file and I want to find and print the line that contains the word 'Good' ...
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Discord Auto Killed [closed]
I am using ubuntu 19.10
When I am playing Dota 2 using steam and using discord for voice chat, my discord automatically quits after some time.
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Installing Chrome or Firefox through PlayOnLinux
I need a Windows install of a modern browser. I'm trying to install Chrome or Firefox, so I've been using PlayOnLinux.
Firefox:
I get the following error:
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library....
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Where to install software using playonlinux?
I am using Ubuntu Desktop 18.04.4 LTS, and very new to playonlinux/wine. I have been trying to install a software (microsoft office 2010 and then 2016) using both playonlinux/wine manually by choosing ...
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How to remove PC name from the terminal
How to remove the PC name from the terminal
example
rahul@rahul-ThinkPad-L480:~$
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rahul:~$
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how to find directories , compress and save in other location
I have a task -
To search 6 months old directories/files.
1) Tar and save to another location.
Below command works perfectly, but saving to same location where old files exist
find . -mtime +180 -...
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how to configure usb to hdmi in ubuntu 18?
I want to connect my external monitor with my laptop using an USB to HDMI device, a Fresco Logic inc. FL2000 USB to HDMI adapter (identified by lsusb as it shows Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1d5c:2000) but ...
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Assign Semi Path to a variable
How can i assign only the first 4 words of a path to a variable
for example:
my current working directory is /home/Foo/Documents/Programs/ShellScripts/Butler
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Is it possible to install microsoft office 365 and power bi in Ubuntu 18.04
Im Using Ubuntu 18.04. I want to install Microsoft Office 365 and Power BI on my Linux machine without VM. Is it Possible?.
I have checked with Wine and Playonlinux also, MsOffice2013 has been ...
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appending under a specific line number using bash
I want to append this line:
define(\RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', \TCP $h 587')dnl
In the 4th line of a file using bash, I need to do to put in script.
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Installing Office 365 on WINE
I need to use Microsoft Office for a class I'm taking, and I can't use an alternative. I'm running WINE 4.5, Ubuntu 19.10, and PlayOnLinux 4.3.4, and I have access to the installer executable and ...
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How to install MS Office 365 ProPlus in Wine?
I have licence for MS Office 365 ProPlus,and I would like to run it on Linux through Wine. So I have 2 questions.
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Why I am getting POL error every time when I try to install 64-bit app through ...
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How to add "Harvard-Angelia" Reference Style on Microsoft Word 2010
I downloaded Microsoft Office 2010 using PlayOnLinux. I checked the reference style there and "Harvard-Angelia" was missing. I downloaded the reference style on .ens form but am confused on where to ...
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