Access Windows Applications from Ubuntu

If you want to access windows applications from ubuntu here is the way to do that you need to install WINE and PLAYONLINUX applications which can be allow you to execute .exe files . Here I posted clear steps to do it.

Step 1 : Install Wine

You can install Wine from the official Ubuntu repositories however from my experience I can say the Wine version in the Wine PPA, even though is not officially "stable" works very good. So to add the Wine PPA and install Wine, use the following commands in terminal to install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.4

Step 2 : Add the PlayOnLinux repository and install the app :

You can add the repository and install using following commands

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O - | sudo apt-key add -

sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_$(lsb_release -cs).list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

Thats all you installed PlayOnLinux application goto your dashboard and open the application you can see ,

you can get some default applications on PlayOnLinux application itself if you want to install any other applications click install button in that bottom left corner you can see install non-listed program click that and you can install with .exe files .

 

 Choose your exe files in your system and install , happy using it....