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What if I want to install Windows software using PlayOnLinux, but the only .exe file I can select is a self-extracting archive? How do I extract the actual main program file that PlayOnLinux is asking for?

Joe J
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I have tested two exe-files with File Roller and Engrampa (fork of file-roller). They were extracted normally. All we need is to have p7zip-full package installed (as @karel already noted).

The file utility reports that they have two file-types:

  • PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, Nullsoft Installer self-extracting archive
  • PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows (for example 7-Zip and WinRAR from Windows create such files when SFX ZIP or SFX RAR was chosen).

Note: the SFX RAR archive could not be opened with this method on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. You can use Wine for this purpose here.

N0rbert
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