Getting a flash .exe game to run with Wine 1.1.14 on Ubuntu Intrepid
I was facing problems getting Governor of Poker to run on my Ubuntu Intrepid.
After launching the exe file, wine fires up, and shows me a window, asking me to pick a folder to install the game.
Here start the troubles….
the browsing of the folders seems to be ok, but picking the folder, does not result in an update of the browse field.
After clicking ok, the job status remains “waiting” and the progress bar doesn’t move.
After checking the file system, I can find the “Governer of Poker” folder, which contains a subfolder called “Config data”.
I tried to apply the patch as shown in this thread: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14139
But when i try to apply it, it asks me “File to patch”. I ran the patch in my .wine folder…
All of the above, without success…
So, first of all, the exe you get when purchasing the game (I do assume you bought it… 
), is a self extracting archive file. I tried and tried, but finally ended up extracting it on a windows machine. If anyone out there can solve this part of the puzzle, please, feel free to let me know.
After that, i copied the folder that was created on my windows machine, to my Ubuntu.
Tried to run the exe with wine again, but still no cigar.
I looked around on the internet some more and found this post: http://dogbuntu.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/running-flash-exes-in-ubuntu-or-any-other-linux-with-wine/
Basically, it tells us to do the following:
- Install WINE.
- Download ies4linux from this site and install ies4linux.
- Press Alt + F2 and type ~/.ies4linux/ie6 and press enter.
- At the same time press Alt+F2 and type ~/.wine
- Now copy all the contents from the former folder to latter folder. And when prompted for overwriting, choose Replace All.
- Now go to terminal and type: wine <flash-program>.exe
After following these instructions, everything worked like a charm!