How do I run in Wine a program installed from an msi?

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Command line would be (adjust the directory if you installed it elsewhere):

wine start "c:/Program Files/MetaGeek/inSSIDer/bin/Inssider.exe"

And it will throw errors if something is wrong.

  • You probably need gdiplus ....

    sh winetricks gdiplus
    
  • You need to have winetricks installed for installing gdiplus.

    wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
    chmod +x winetricks
    

Regarding the current error:

wine: Install Mono for Windows to run .NET 2.0 applications.

So...

 winetricks mono21
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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • matteo
    matteo over 1 year

    I have installed a .msi file with wine, by right-clicking on it and selecting "run with Wine". Wine has apparently succesfully installed the application: now how am I supposed to run it?

    I have typed the name of the program in Ubuntu's launcher, and an item appears with that name and wine's icon, so I've tried to run that, but I get two popups one after the other with the following error messages: - invalid parameter - there is no window program configured to run this file

    The program is called "inSSIDer" and I downloaded it from: http://files.metageek.net/downloads/inSSIDer-Installer-2.1.5.1393.msi

    UPDATE:

    $ wine start "c:\Program Files\MetaGeek\inSSIDer\inSSIDer.exe"
    fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
    teo@XXX:~$ fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"configSections" in state 1
    fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"sectionGroup" in state 3
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    fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"userSettings" in state 1
    fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"inSSIDer.Properties.Settings" in state 3
    fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"setting" in state 3
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    wine: Install Mono for Windows to run .NET 2.0 applications.
    
    • Rinzwind
      Rinzwind about 11 years
      Any reason why not to use iwScanner or kismet?
    • JonasCz
      JonasCz over 7 years
      Note that inSSIDer will probably not work on Wine, since it needs direct access to the hardware / WiFi info, and Wine cannot provide that.
  • matteo
    matteo about 11 years
    Updated with the result of wine start "c:/Program Files/MetaGeek/inSSIDer/bin/Inssider.exe"
  • Smile4ever
    Smile4ever about 9 years
    winetricks dotnet20 should also work (and in more cases), instead of mono21