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Hi guys. I am TOTALLY new on Linux and we just bought a new Linux server at the office and I have to install some application on it. I need to install and other applcations but unfortunately it does not recognize the exe files as installable files. How do I go about installing them. Your assistance will be appreciated guys. :(( :((
kagiso
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Hi guys. I am TOTALLY new on Linux and we just bought a new Linux server at the office and I have to install some application on it. I need to install and other applcations but unfortunately it does not recognize the exe files as installable files. How do I go about installing them. Your assistance will be appreciated guys. :(( :((
kagiso
Exe files are programs that are compiled for Windows. You need programs that are compiled to run on Linux, simply taking an exe and trying to run it on Linux won't work. Wherever you got the applications from that you're trying to install, you need to go back there and get different versions. Different Linux distributions have different ways to help you install software. Most have some sort of online repository for software and you use a nice GUI to select the apps you want to install, click a button and viola, the apps are installed. Another common thing is that different distributions have their own installer packages - kind of like Microsoft's MSI files. The idea is that everything you need to install an app is packaged in one file and all you have to do is launch that file. Red Hat's ".rpm" files and Debian's ".deb" files are two types that are pretty standard nowadays. If you're TOTALLY new on Linux then I strongly suggest you try to find a mentor in your company or get some kind of beginners book to help you.
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Hi guys. I am TOTALLY new on Linux and we just bought a new Linux server at the office and I have to install some application on it. I need to install and other applcations but unfortunately it does not recognize the exe files as installable files. How do I go about installing them. Your assistance will be appreciated guys. :(( :((
kagiso
matjame wrote:
I need to install and other applcations but unfortunately it does not recognize the exe files as installable files. How do I go about installing them.
Some of the EXE files can be executed using wine[^] but not all. Since you are new to LINUX world, I would suggest to start with UBUNTU. It has got simple UI and almost easy to configure. You will get frequent updates and the synaptic package manager makes software installations painless. :)
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Hi guys. I am TOTALLY new on Linux and we just bought a new Linux server at the office and I have to install some application on it. I need to install and other applcations but unfortunately it does not recognize the exe files as installable files. How do I go about installing them. Your assistance will be appreciated guys. :(( :((
kagiso
First of all, Windows executables (.exe) won't natively run on Linux. Contrary to what others said, WINE isn't the only way of running Windows binaries. If the binaries are .NET-programs, they might actually run if you have the MONO runtimes properly installed. This is mostly limited to console apps, though. However, you can always install Windows into a virtual machine and run your software there. If the software is popular, there might be a Linux version, as a binary package or source code. Source code is mostly offered as tarballs (.tar.gz) and requires a compilation after extraction. Under linux, extracting the source-code, changing into the source dir and executing the commands ./configure make make install should configure the toolchain, build the software and install it for you. If you are missing compononents necessary for the build, the output of configure and make will tell you. Binary packages are usually suitable for one or more distributions. The most famous formats are .deb (Debian-based) and .rpm (Redhat-Package-Manager). DEBs are usually installed with synaptic, aptitude or dpkg, RPMs with yast or another redhat package manager. On Debian-based systems, "apt-get install product" will try to retrieve and install a binary package by the name of "product", resolving dependencies and showing the results for you.
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matjame wrote:
I need to install and other applcations but unfortunately it does not recognize the exe files as installable files. How do I go about installing them.
Some of the EXE files can be executed using wine[^] but not all. Since you are new to LINUX world, I would suggest to start with UBUNTU. It has got simple UI and almost easy to configure. You will get frequent updates and the synaptic package manager makes software installations painless. :)
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Yeah..I have went through all that.....I now know how to install packages in Linux (CentOS Red Hat)....The problem is that..I have packages already on my desktop and want to install them
kagiso
matjame wrote:
.The problem is that..I have packages already on my desktop and want to install them
Is that in a RPM format? When you install packaged manually, you will run into dependency issues. The package you are installing may be dependent on several other packages and you need to install the dependencies first. :)
Navaneeth How to use google | Ask smart questions
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matjame wrote:
.The problem is that..I have packages already on my desktop and want to install them
Is that in a RPM format? When you install packaged manually, you will run into dependency issues. The package you are installing may be dependent on several other packages and you need to install the dependencies first. :)
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Thanx Navaneeth..I just went to the CentOS site and got the RPMs and the other applications and they got installed automatically. Now I can install again but I am trying now to install from my desktop. Which is still giving me a problem by the way..you can help me with that if you know how. Thank you again for your assistance. Appreciated
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