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wine1.2 package

Wine blocks files without executable Bit

Bug #569675 reported by John Doe on 2010-04-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #14335: nautilus wants to execute all text files on vfat and ntfs drives. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	wine1.2 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: wine1.2

When starting executables with Wine, this Message appears:

"The file '/media/INSTALL/setup.exe' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit."

So far, so good. I can set the executable Bit.

But I can not do this on a CD-R. Files on Read-Only Media are... well, read-only. What should a User do when getting in this Situation?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: wine 1.1.42-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 25 10:35:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100414)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wine1.2

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John Doe (jodo-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-04-25:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2010-04-25:

I agree, it sucks. However I believe this can be fixed using proper mount options, which means the bug is in a different package. Were you just inserting the CD and clicking?

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John Doe (jodo-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-04-25:

Yes, just inserted the CD (Diablo 2). After it was not possible to start the Installer graphical, I (!) did it via Terminal.

For me, this is not a problem, but I don't think that this is a good way for most Users. I've had some questions about that in our Forums, many People think of an error and just giving up.

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote on 2010-05-05:

>"However I believe this can be fixed using proper mount options,"

Well the proper mount options were(are) provided by an fstab entry for the drive...

Unfortunately that isn't created for those doing 'fresh' installs, though upgrade installs do still contain an entry(s) for cd/dvd drive(s). (sometimes to the detriment of the user

mentioned here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.2/+bug/554642

For those stumbling upon this looking for a solution - a few of several
use the team wine ppa
use the cli -
wine /path/to/whatever.exe

create a custom (right click) launcher, just use wine as launch command
edit the default launch command for wine in /usr/share/applications/wine.desktop
new command -
Exec=wine start /unix %f

or add an fstab entry back (possibly ill advised..?

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dallas simpson (dallas-dallasmasters) wrote on 2010-08-04:

I'm using Linux Mint 9.

Copy the exe file for the software on to your Linux desktop.

Next find the folder on the virtual C drive wine is using to open windows exe files
With wine installed open terminal in Linux and type:
wine programname.exe

where "programname" is the exact name of the Windows executable file for the software

This should return the folder that wine is looking for in the virtual C drive to install Windows software from. On my system its C/windows/system32

Copy the exe file for the program from your Linux desktop into the system32 folder, or whichever folder is appropriate.

Then open terminal in Linux and type:

wine programname.exe

and hit return. This will run the exe file without calling the executable bit check and it should work fine.