Wubi.exe won’t start

Question

I'm currently using Win7 64bit. I right clicked "wubi.exe" and chose "run as administrator", then nothing happened. I have "ubuntu-10.04.2-desktop-i386.iso" and "wubi.exe" in the same folder. Thanks.

Solution 1

The instructions to run Wubi are here.

Specifically relating to your question:

You are attempting to install a 32bit version of ubuntu into your 64bit O/S. If this was intentional then

To modify arguments, right-click Wubi.exe and select "Create Shortcut". Then right-click the shortcut, select Properties, and modify the Target line, for example: "C:\Documents and Settings\\Desktop\wubi.exe" --32bit

Otherwise, download the 64bit ubuntu ISO and install via wubi by double clicking the exe.

Solution 2

Just Copy wubi.exe and the iso file to c:\

and it will work fine

Comments

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

Please file such things as bugs. It's not a question. Launchpad.net is much better suited to handling these kinds of issues.

[grizwako]

Hey, i have same problem, and i do have multiple python installations on my system, deleted anything python releated from %temp%, and i do not see any logs. Also, file starts, but it exits after starting (if i run it from console, file executes and i get next cmd prompt entry)

[bcbc]

When I was running a debuggable version of wubi, I found that I had to copy python23.dll into the current directory before it would work. Python doesn't seem very backwards-compatible so it's possible that if it finds a later runtime - it simply doesn't work (that's what I'd guess is happening).

[Steely Wing]

It works for me, I put wubi.exe and the iso in S:\ , nothing happend, but put in C:\ , it works!