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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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Windows Program fails to open file

I´ve just installed SONAR LE 8.5.1 on my Ubuntu 12.10 machine. And, against my expectations, it works complete fine! Except for one thing: When I record something, SONAR is getting the audio-data and ...
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Can I change my stock amd fan speed?

I have an amd a4-5300, and it it running loud. I remember my last amd stock fan being silent. I can't change it in my bios, and I see that it might be possible to do through Ubuntu when googling. I ...
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Can't run an .exe file unless I'm in its directory

I'm running Quantal 32-bit with Wine 1.4.1 installed. I have a particular .exe file of an old game (Aliens vs Predator Gold Edition) that runs flawlessly, but it refuses to run unless I am in its ...
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Is Netflix-Desktop down for everyone? [duplicate]

Netflix-Desktop isn't working currently. Every time I select a movie to play I get asked if I would like to install silverlight. I believe Firefox updated itself but am not sure. I did apt-get ...
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32 bit Wine in 64 bit PC running Ubuntu 64 bit Precise

As I'm using dotnet20, I've setup a WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 with WINEARCH=win32 (as per question 'Installing dotnet2,0 on 64 bit machine'). I saw in above question (How to install 32 Bit Wine on 64 Bit ...
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None of my games are working in wine 1.5

I have been trying to download and play World of Warcraft, and play Stronghold (disk game) but neither are working. My wine is version 1.5.28. I have seen on WineHQ's AppDB that both work for others, ...
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Running Age of Empires 2 in Linux

I've been recently trying to play Age of Empires 2 on my Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS computer. However, I can't seem to get it to work with any method i found on the computer. I've tried Playonlinux, ...
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PES 2013 via Wine on Ubuntu 12.10

I've finally got the game to work on Ubuntu. The thing is it's slow. This game is the only thing keeping me from totally moving from Windows 8 to Ubuntu 12.10 I would like to get rid of Windows 8 by ...
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Change office file associations to MS Office 2010

I have freshly installed Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit on my HP Pavilion g6 laptop. Post installation I installed MS Office 2010 through wine. By default all office files viz. xls/x, doc/x, ppt/x are associated ...
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How can I run Corel Draw?

I have purchased Corel Draw and I am required to use it for school. Can I install this program on my Ubuntu system or is my Windows machine the only option here? I do have Inkscape and love it but I ...
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wine install problem

$ sudo apt-get install wine [sudo] password for hergul: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may ...
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Can't get Office 2010 to run under Wine

I can't get Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student to install on Ubuntu 12.10 under the latest version of Wine. I've tried both the 32- and 64 bit installers but they both fail about two thirds of the ...
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How can i open the .auz (Authorization File) to Authorize Ableton live 8.2.2

I want first to say that i am completely new to Ubuntu,i installed it one week ago. I already watched the solutions to this problem and tried them all: i checked on system32 that all the necessary ....
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How to keep wine from creating directories in my home directory?

I have got a wine installtion with a couple of games, most of which work fabulously. However, wine creates directories in my home for the player data, saves, etc. Is there a way to have those in ~/....
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Alt-gr (right alt) key does not work to edit text in Wine

Using MS Office in Wine with some keyboard layouts (e.g. us_international) that involve letters that need the Alt Gr key, I noticed that it does not work. But it turns out the problem affects all ...
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Mount an ISO image in Wine?

I need to install some program in wine, which require to access a mounted ISO image. Whenever I mount an ISO image in Nautilus, in which drive it mounted in Wine? For some programs which can find the ...
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Netflix wont work without NEW silverlight update [duplicate]

ive looked through the answered questions here and none of the solutions work. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10, 64 bit on a System 76 lemur ultra. netflix was working fine up until about 2 or 3 days ago, ...
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How do I fix Netflix requiring Silverlight update?

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit, which I installed using the original release (not the newer 12.04.2 release), and have been successfully using netflix-desktop ever since the ppa:ehoover/compholio ...
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 via Wine on Ubuntu 12.10

I've tried installing PES 2013 via wine. It worked, the installation process is finished. The game doesn't run correctly. The game reads my VRAM as 128 MB, mine is 512 MB. I think I must install the ...
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How to properly install PlayOnLinux, all the drivers, etc?

I am (re)installing Ubuntu 12.04 now, and I'd like to ask what things I have to install to properly run games with PlayOnLinux? I mean do I need to install some kind of graphics driver, or DirectX, ....
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Activate Office 2010 running in PlayOnLinux with a KMS server

Is it possible to activate a volume licensed copy of Microsoft Office installed using PlayOnLinux with my organisation's Key Management server? The installation with PlayOnLinux worked flawlessly but ...
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Connection failed message when installing wine

When installing Wine in 12.10 I get the following message: Err http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main fonts-unfonts-core all 1.0.3.is.1.0.2-080608-5ubuntu1 Connection failed Failed to ...
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Online activiation within wine, port 80

I have a program that I simply received as an .exe file. Installation seems to work with wine but it asks to activate the product online. The preset is to use the Internet Explorer settings but as I ...
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How to make terminal shortcut with this code in it?

Hi i am not good at terminal shortcuts or anything like that but if someone can give me instructions to make these to commands to a shortcut that will be awesome cd "/home/owner/.wine/dosdevices/c:/...
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Ubuntu 12.04 not loading after removing Wine

I used the following command to get rid of Wine on my Ubuntu 12.04 system but instead it got rid of everything! sudo apt-get remove wine* Now when I try to load my Ubuntu I get the following: The ...
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How do I run a python script with Wine?

I'm using Calibre to manage my ebooks and I'm trying to install a plugin that will allow me to manage library books that I get through Adobe Digital Editions via Wine. I've got everything installed, ...
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Photoshop on WINE 1.4

I've encountered a problem that seems it didn't happen to anyone other than me :s I've Downloaded PS CS6 and Installed it with no problems, When I try to launch it via WINE 1.4 it freezes on "Scannin ...
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Is there a virtual machine with direct access to CPU and GPU for gaming?

Sorry for the long question. With the coming of Steam for Linux I may have been over optimistic and got rid of windows installation. The problem is that I have about 100 Steam games that are not (and ...
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How to Run Dual Operating Systems, Windows 7 Primary, Ubuntu Secondary

I know how to install two operating systems, but the problem is, I only know how to set it up in a way that requires me to reboot the machine, and selecting an OS to boot up. So pretty much only one ...
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Distorted and sped up audio in Wine 1.4 while using Spotify on Ubuntu 12.04

I have two applications that run through Wine that will sometimes get horribly distorted and "sped forward" (I can see in Spotify that the files are played back much faster than they should be). I ...
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Alt Key Functionality broke in Wine program after upgrade to 12.04

I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, and all ALT key functionality is gone in this Wine program I've been using for years. The program is elderly, it came out back in 2005, but it's worked beautifully under ...
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AMD Radeon GPU only uses 384MB VRAM instead of +2GB dedicated video-memory

for some reason a majority if not all games are limited to only 384MBs of video memory (VRAM) instead of it's full 2048MB dedicated memory. I read somewhere that disabling "Sych with VBlank" in the ...
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A few questions before I get Ubuntu

I don't really know if this is the right place to ask these questions, but I would like to clear these up. Ok, so, Ubuntu sounds awesome, but I heard it has Wine on it already? If it does, that's ...
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Rhino 3D 5.0 64bit

I would do anything to get Rhino 5 working on my Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS. First the extension of the file is .msi. I have tried using CrossOver to install it, but failed. I tried to install it using wine ...
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How to improve GUI and font appearance of programs installed under CrossOver?

This can be done in Wine but can it be done in CrossOver?
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Cannot install wine and playonlinux due to 404 errors?

As the title says I am a Ubuntu 12.04 user without any particular unix experience. I am a (somewhat rusty) fully qualified MSCE engineer who has made the mistake of switching to management :-). I ...
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Cant run apps fullscreen with wine

I am running ubuntu 12.10 and when I am using wine 15. something then when I try to run world of warcraft on fullscreen, then the unity sidebar remains there. When i run league of legends, then it is ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 just Killed Wine & ZSNES

My system just did a partial upgrade. I was busy doing something else so just let it get on with things. Now it has removed Wine and ZSNES and won't allow me to reinstall them! Is there a way to "...
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How to associate file types with wine in nautilus

I have Ubuntu 12.10 with Nautilus 3.4.2. After installing wine "apt-get install wine" are exe files still associated with the archive manager. In previous versions of ubuntu I've always right ...
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Can't uninstall apps that are being used on wine

I recently installed wine so that I could play midtown madness 2 on it but when I installed midtown madness and ran it, it crashed so now I want to uninstall it but I can't is there a way I can get ...
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playonlinux installation failed how do I fix it? [duplicate]

So I was installing playonlinux as I wanted iTunes. I typed in the terminal sudo apt-get install playonlinux and it went well. But I can't find it on my laptop anywhere. When I try to install it again ...
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How do I run software as an administrator using Wine/PlayonLinux? [duplicate]

Today I was wondering if I could run a Program I installed on a virtual drive as an administrator? I installed Cain and Abel on this drive, When I run the program it works fine. But in order for it ...
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Install a software throe wine on ntfs partition

I have a question I want to install windows software, but I do not have enough space on ext4 partition, so if I install the software on ntfs directory will the software run as it would run on ext/home ...
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How Do I Get Rid of "Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0"?

My short question is: How do I get rid of the RandR error below, while still using a proprietaty nVidia driver package (e.g. 304) ? The gore follows. A fresh install of wine 1.5 (latest, from ...
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How can I fully maximize wine applications?

In wine, my maximized applications retain the bar at top with title and minimize/maximize buttons. This duplicates the Ubuntu global menu and costs me precious screen space on my laptop. I would like ...
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syncing folders between wine and windows for foobar2000

I use foobar2000 on windows to manage and play my music and and looking to get foobar2000 working under wine on ubuntu. Ive gotten the program to run fine and am just looking for a way to not have to ...
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Why internet explorer 6 trying to save all webpages?

I have successfully installed IE 6 using playonlinux, but I'm unable to browse any site. when I'm entering any address in the address bar, following message is pops up You are downloading the file: ...
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How to make a device (With a Windows application on it) ask to install a program on Wine?

Ok, lets say I insert a HTC phone into my laptop. On Windows, it says: Would you like to install HTC sync manager? Yes Or No. And I would click 'Yes'. But On Ubuntu it does nothing like that. It ...
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How to open .docx files on Ubuntu?

I am unable to view images in .docx on Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu 10.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 (ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Ubuntu package 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1.1) Is there any tool to read .docx? Please note that I ...
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Can't seem to get Wine to install "Package dependencies cannot be resolved"

Just built a new computer. Been using ubuntu for years now and was naturally what I put on the new box. Tried to install Wine through the "Ubuntu Software Center" but got "Package dependencies cannot ...
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