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I have a file named X.iso. In this file there is a Windows application named X that I want to install then use. How can I install a Windows application file named X that is embedded in an ISO file into Wine and then be able to use it?
Note :
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
I have wine .
This is a Half-Answer. I say half since you will not be able to visualize the theme of WMP11 but you will be able to play music and videos (Videos in this case only in fullcreen). If this is something you think solves the problem then accept, if not (Most likely will not since it is a weird way of installing it) then feel free to comment on it.
(Tested on my PC a laptop and in a last sorry excuse for PC just to make sure the procedure can repeat itself)
Steps to install Windows Media Player:
Pre-Requesites:
After all that is made (I also have PlayOnLinux installed. I mention it just in case POL installed something in Wine and I did not notice or didn't tell me about it ^^) we can proceed with WMP11:
wine wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe where the downloaded installer is. At this point winecfg should be configure in Windows 2003 mode. You will get the welcome screen, click on validate and wait for it. In Windows 2003 mode it will skip validation and go to the EULA. DO NOT ACCEPT THE EULA YET!.wineserver -k to kill any remaining wine related processes.wmplayer.exe (You can run it from Nautilus). In my case it is in /home/cyrex/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Windows Media Player. Remember to not close winecfg since we are not done yet with it.WMP11 will open but it will be horrible as seen here:
Press Enter 4 or 5 times to accept something that you can not see. I do not remember how many. Just do 5 and that should be enough.
Again, close WMP11. run wineserver -k just to make sure.
Open wmplayer.exe again. This time you should see a little bit more stuff like here:
And one last time, close WMP11. run wineserver -k and change winecfg from Windows 7 to FINALLY Windows XP where it will remain. NOW you can close winecfg.
That is all. The option to run WMP11 can be found in the Open With option when right clicking in Nautilus, as seen here:
You can hear music, add mp3 lists and hear all songs from the list as shown here:
Lastly you CAN see a movie but you need to make it fullscreen to see it. Just press ALT+ENTER for fullscreen. The menu below while fullscreen will not work, instead just right click the video and the context menu should help. As shown here:
Do not listen to the other complex answers. All of the files are available from the standard ubuntu repos. There are no ppa's to add. These are standard Ubuntu programs. The software center does not work ( I have no idea why they shipped it). That is why you cannot do anything.
However, you will need to checkmark all of the boxes in the software and updates applet:
Also it is good to go to the next tab and check off the sources is OtherSoftware for canonical partners. This will give you skype and some other things. (Hit the "Super button" or "windows" key and type "software" to get the screen above.
In a terminal session (CTRL+ALT+T). Simply type:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
I think wine tricks will be there too. You might want to install play on linux
sudo apt-get install playonlinux
Be sure that when you install wine that you are online. It will want to ask you about installing some stuff from microsoft. Make sure you agree to the terms and then select the forward button. Do not do anything until it installs completely because a popup window will come for the fonts. You might miss it if you have many windows open.
You can find these in the app store (not so good) or through synaptic (recommended)
sudo apt-get install synaptic
You do not need apt-get and can simply use sudo apt install in 16.04 but I use the old way to help people because it works in all versions.
Best Answer
Create a directory where you will mount the disk, say inside
/media/sudo mkdir /media/xnow mount the iso using mount command like
sudo mount -o loop <PATH_ISO> /media/xfor unmount use
umount