Ubuntu Help

[eXg. TrueGift]

Ok, I split my hardrive into 2 partitions, one for xp and one for my newest operating system i downloaded today, ubuntu and i need help..


I tried downloading msn and team viewer and what ever and it just gives me an error

Archive: /home/chris/Downloads/wrar393.exe
[/home/chris/Downloads/wrar393.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.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/chris/Downloads/wrar393.exe or
/home/chris/Downloads/wrar393.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/chris/Downloads/wrar393.exe.ZIP, period.

Please help?

[CaMeL]

they use tarz and other install packages. try reading the user guide and learning the background of the operating system before diving head first.

you can execute .exe in linux but you would need a software package called Wine. it is used to emulate a win32 sub directory in a linux environment in order to run windows applications.

just do some homework and you will be okay

also make sure you are downloading linux versions of software and not windows unless you really know what your doing. You can really mess up everything very easily in linux. if you want a better windows to linux move user experience i would go with the linux distribution called "Sabanyon". you can also run linux directly from cd without installing it. its called a live cd. you can even do it to a usb memory stick.

[eXg. TrueGift]

I got wine i installed teamviewer but i tried to install msn with the wine thing and it wont load

Any help asap would be appreciated

[eXg. Pun1sher]

wine > pun

[CaMeL]

I got wine i installed teamviewer but i tried to install msn with the wine thing and it wont load

Any help asap would be appreciated

Not everything will work through wine. Its all trial and error buddy.

[eXg. TrueGift]

howcani get it to run then is there a ubuntu version of msn or wtf lol

[eXg. Pun1sher]

Not everything will work through wine. Its all trial and error buddy.

Not having huge surpluses of time, nor a traditional "office job", that's what kinda kicked it back for me. Doesn't mean it's bad, and I've been reading more and more positive, rabid writeups on that distro.

[eXg.Ground Zero]

Go back to xp and save yourself the trouble.

[eXg. TrueGift]

wine sux and only works 10% of the time, i fixed my problem but it that 10% helped me succeed the rest of the way so thanks camel

[CaMeL]

NP Con, just remember that the Unbuntu community is very devoted and their site has many resources to help accomplish your goals with Linux.

[eXg. TrueGift]

cuz microsoft hasen't got off there ass to make it compatible with windows xp they made aMSN campatible with linux, ubuntu and mac

[CaMeL]

cuz microsoft hasen't got off there ass to make it compatible with windows xp they made aMSN campatible with linux, ubuntu and mac

huh make what compatible and with what?

[eXg. Phenom]

I'm eating an orange tic-tac. Orange is the only fruit thats also the name of a color. Vitamin C is good for you.

[CaMeL]

I'm eating an orange tic-tac. Orange is the only fruit thats also the name of a color. Vitamin C is good for you.

Thats a digital blasphemy wallpaper. nice find.

[eXg. TrueGift]

cuz microsoft hasen't got off there ass to make it compatible with windows xp they made aMSN campatible with linux, ubuntu and mac

huh make what compatible and with what?

Msn isn't compatible with windows xp, so I did some research and found something that was made for linux,ubuntu and mac because msn isn't. The program is called aMSN - it's awesome