How to install exe file on BOSS through WINE

To install wine packages you can use two methods: add the repository or download a .deb package and manually install it, but first of all you have to remove older wine version. If you use the first method you'll have wine automatically upgraded by apt, otherwise you'll need to manually download and install every new version.

Remove old version

Open a terminal

$ sudo apt-get remove libwine wine #to remove outdated version of wine

Method 1:

Open a terminal and run the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get update #to update package list

$ sudo apt-get install wine #to install latest wine version

Note: For other linux system, if the above command (sudo apt-get install wine) gives error "wine is not a installable candidate" or similar error then do the following:

Open repository file with a text editor (you can use gedit or another) by following command

#gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add this line for Lenny: deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main

Add this line for Squeeze: deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt squeeze main

Add this line for Sid: deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt sid main

Save and close sources.list

Now run the following commands:

wget -O - http://www.lamaresh.net/apt/key.gpg | apt-key add - #to add gpg key

apt-get update #to update package list

apt-get install wine #to install latest wine version

Method 2: Download .deb and manually install it

Chose a .deb package from binary list and save it in your home directory

Open a terminal

cd ~ #to go to your home directory

su #to log as root

dpkg -i wine_1.1.xxx.deb #change xxx with your chosen package, this will install wine

Configuring Wine

Before using Wine, it is necessary to create the pseudo C:\ drive where your Windows applications will be installed. Enter Wine configuration mode by issuing following command on your machine,

winecfg

You can also select the Configure Wine option in the Applications ? Wine menu. This will create the .wine directory in your home directory. This is used to store all the configurations and the pseudo C drive. It also contains a bunch of other things including but not limited to the registry structure like that in Windows, configurations settings like the Windows version to be emulated, DLL overrides and specific memory related settings. We don’t need to go into the details of those at this moment.

Installing Applications

To install Windows applications with Wine, follow the instructions below,

1. Download the Windows application you wish to install and place it in a convenient directory.
2. Open the terminal on your system.
3. Change to the directory where the application installer is located.
4. Issue the command wine followed by the name of the application to install it.

e.g.:

wine someApplication.exe

Remember to give the full name of the application along with the extension.

Running the Wine applications

Most application installed via Wine will end up in a special Wine menu in your main menu and you can directly launch those applications from there.

Uninstalling the applications

To uninstall the applications, open up a terminal and type “uninstaller” – this will open up a program which lets you uninstall applications from Wine. Running uninstall programs directly via Wine should also work normally. Alternatively, you could also simply delete the folder of the application but it leaves traces of that application behind in the registry and other configuration files.

Source: http://www.noob2geek.com/linux/how-to-install-exe-files-on-ubuntu/