Wine unable to open EXE. Blocked in Lucid ?

[Blur-king]

Had install wine but has problem trying to install exe file. Keep getting this message

"The file '/home/dada/Desktop/SoftonicEN_FFSetupSoftOnic.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."

Any ideas?

[note32]

right click on the .exe and go to properies i think you have to uncheck read only or something like that

[tgm4883]

Actually, you right click, go to properties, and check the box next to executable

[Blur-king]

Thanks. Got it

[kerry_s]

properties-> permissions, check> allow executing file ...

[note32]

Actually, you right click, go to properties, and check the box next to executable

thats what i ment

[andygait]

Actually, you right click, go to properties, and check the box next to executable

Many thanks.

I was having the same problem trying to get Spotify to load.

Thanks again.

[Madspyman]

This works as a fix per exe. What about for content that's on a cd/dvd? I know you could always copy the content to the hard disk, and fix it that way, but It'd be nice to be able to install programs from a cd/dvd.

[ZBREAKER]

Yep, exactly...trying to install an old game (Unreal) from cd and the solutions above do not work for the setup.exe on the game disk.

Anyone?

[mc4man]

from a cd - 3 of a number of solutions
If you run from a terminal then there should be no issue w/ wine /path/to/.exe
Ex.
wine /media/COD1/Setup.exe

create a new custom launcher - r. click on the .exe, open with other application -> use a custom command
for the command this will do.
wine

Then either r. click - open with wine or r. click - properties - open with and set the default to wine - then a d. left click on any .exe will work.

Edit the default launch command for wine
as it is now
Exec=cautious-launcher %f wine start /unix

change to
Exec=wine start /unix %f

Edit
if doing a multi-disk install then these are 2 ways I've found (by default lucid has no fstab entries anymore for cd/dvd drives and wine obviously can't dtect the drive.
quoting from other post

I just did a multi-disc install on lucid 2 different ways so it's possible.

The first way (without an fstab entry), I created a 'drive' in winecfg - D: with an address matching the mount point of the cd - /media/<volumelabel> and proceeded as normal

The second way, I created a fstab entry, restarted, had winecfg detect the drive and again no issue