wine users - Feb 2011 - Can't get wine to run any programs: included error message.

Okay I just installed the latest ver of Ubuntu and then installed the beta ver
of Wine because the non-beta told me that it wouldn't install on AMD x 64
type computers.

So I just installed the beta Wine version and I can't get any programs to
run at all using wine.

I also am having many pages on this forum stalling out, so i tried to read the
user manual but i am not able to load it.

It appears that wine creates a dir of the programs on the windows area of the HD
but why can't I just install the program I want to run through my ubuntu
interface

Here is error code i get no matter what i try to run--other than the one notepad
program that seems to be included with the wine program.

Thanks for any and all help!!!

Archive:  /home/tosh/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/notepad.exe
[/home/tosh/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/notepad.exe]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
note:  /home/tosh/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/notepad.exe may be a plain
executable, not an archive
zipinfo:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of
/home/tosh/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/notepad.exe or
          /home/tosh/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/notepad.exe.zip, and cannot
find /home/tosh/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/notepad.exe.ZIP, period.

Would help if you were trying to load with wine.

That message is trying to open the .exe with a archive manager.  Of course its
not going to run.

James McKenzie wrote:
> On 2/19/11 5:45 PM, kpwall wrote:
> 
> > Okay,
> > 
> > I figured out that I have to use a "terminal window," to use
wine.
> > 
> > I was able to open notepad and explorer in wine; both of these files
are in the main windows folder: c:\windows/*.exe will open notepad or explorer
> > 
> > In windows 7 the full file path I can find for say Internet Explorer
is:  c:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer however the command: wine
c:\Program Files (x86)/Internet Explorer.exe will not open the application and
results in bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> > 
> > 
> > And vitamin I haven't been able to load that page yet it times out
or something as do most of the other @%$#ing  help pages I am trying to open or
I get a 404 fiel not found on many google links
> > 
> > 
> You have to 'escape' the left AND right parenthesis like this. 
However,
> Wine does not use Program Files (x86), so it appears you were trying to 
> map in the Windows C: drive to be your Wine C: drive and that just 
> totally hosed your Windows installation and broke Wine so it WILL NOT work.
> 
> What are you trying to do here?
> 
> James McKenzie

Seems he is trying to figure out how to use WINE.