I downloaded a game that I play on my Windows machine hoping to play it on my Linux machine and each time I try installing/opening I get an error that says Non 7z archive. I have tried a few different ways of opening this file to be immediately greeted with this error. Any ideas what is the cause of this? It is a larger .exe file at 2g in size. Thanks.
zerogeer6 wrote:> I downloaded a game that I play on my Windows machine hoping to play it on my Linux machine and each time I try installing/opening I get an error that says Non 7z archive. I have tried a few different ways of opening this file to be immediately greeted with this error. Any ideas what is the cause of this? It is a larger .exe file at 2g in size. > > Thanks.How are you opening it? Just double-clicking in a GUI? I'm guessing you're not even running Wine and a file extractor is associating itself with all exe files (since some are extractable). Cheers, Jorl17
Does that *exact same* executable work in Windows? Could the download have corrupted it? A simple google query shows up similar questions. For instance: http://www.emailquestions.com/help-desk/995-do-i-fix-7-zip-error.html (proposes a simple solution) or http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=103043 It might or might not be a Wine bug, but you should be able to get away with it by manually extracting the file with a file extractor and 7-zip support. nevertheless, that console log would be helpful if this doesn't work. Also, if it does work, try it out in a Windows machine to see if it's a Wine bug, please. Cheers, Jorl17
Pretty much every attempt I have made using the solutions that you all have been nice enough to provide me result in the same error. I'm stumped but being that I have next to no experience troubleshooting this kind of thing due to my lack of experience with Linux I have to throw in the towel and just go with what I know. I know, not enough effort on my part but unfortunately the ease of use with the other OS is what keeps me from fully converting. I have this installed on my Windows machine and even went to the extent of copying the file I know works to a USB drive to copy it over to this machine. This is a great OS if you know it but the learning curve for me at least will relegate this machine to the easy stuff like we browsing or using the programs that are part of the build. Thanks again for the assistance, sorry it did not work out better. :(