WINE and install.exe?

[commandrix]

Okay, I'm still kinda trying to get WINE to cooperate. The application I'm trying to install is called WhiteHatBox (which right now I think is a piece of donkey's tail for not making this easy and having a Linux version) and WINE is telling me that it can't find install.exe. I can confirm that it's not in the specified folder (system32) and I've heard of PCs locking up because people downloaded a file called install.exe from La-La Land. Can somebody help me find a legit version of install.exe or does someone have an alternative method for getting WhiteHatBox to actually work?

[jimallyn]

Although I am not currentlly using wine, I have in the past, and I don't recall ever having to use anything called install.exe. Nor do I recall any mention of it on any Linux forums. What makes you think you need it?

[commandrix]

It's this error message I get when I try to install WhiteHatBox. I'm using Terminal because I figured I'd get farther, but it doesn't seem to be working.

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wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\install.exe"

[Flemur]

...I don't recall ever having to use anything called install.exe.

It's a common name for an installer, like "setup.exe".

It's this error message I get when I try to install WhiteHatBox.

Exactly what are you doing when you install WhiteHatBox?

Does the installer - whatever it is - first extract files, like "install.exe", and then try to run them? If so, it might be putting them in a /tmp area, then looking for them in the wrong place.

Edit: when it says it can't find install.exe, try this in another terminal:
$ cd ~/.wine
$ find -iname "*install.exe*"
see if there's one in a (windows) temp directory.

Also look in /tmp on the linux system:
$ cd /tmp
$ find -iname "*install.exe*"

[jimallyn]

Pretty sure Flemur meant 'find' not 'fine'.

[Flemur]

Pretty sure Flemur meant 'find' not 'fine'.

Fixed, thanks.

[commandrix]

Hm. It's not finding install.exe at all.