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by dirtlover on September 21st, 2003

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How do you install programs on Linux? Can I run Windows programs (.exe) on Linux?

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  • by Anonymous on December 8th, 2006

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    You can run .exe files via wine which is a compatibility layer between Unix-based operating systems and Windows. However, we would recommend not to use wine for things that are already available on Linux natively (That means a binary compiled on a unix-based operating system FOR a unix-based operating system).

    You install software on Linux by using your package manager, there are graphical frontends to the package managers on each distribution (Almost, at least those who want to make it easy for new people coming from Windows) Package managers such as apt and rpm (Stands for redhat package manager) are for either debian-based distributions (Such as ubuntu) or for redhat based distributions (Such as Fedora/Suse/etc..), on debian-based there are frontends like Synaptic, Add/Remove, Adept, etc... while on RPM based there are frontends like Yast (On suse). Basically what you do is run any of the frontends, search for a software package, select it and then install it, it's that simple. But lets say you can't find a package anywhere in your package manager, you can easily find third party Repositories which may hold what you want. Other than that, if you find .rpm files or .deb files you can also install them easily via GUI, right click on them and select Install.

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