Wine & Crossover are emulators for smaller apps. Not well documented so far unlike commercial apps that are very well documented, but enough to run necessary apps/programs needed. sudo ? super user?s do is used to log in as root ( -s invokes a shell). For more info use man sudo
To install Wine:
1. on the terminal log to sudo -s
2. add the public key http://winehq.org/site/download-deb
3. repo for wine deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main.
4. add it to /etc/apt/sources.list
5. and then type apt-get install wine
6. then sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
7. indicate the Password:
To run Wine:
1. run winecfg
2. run wine app.exe
3. If the following will be encountered:
?Could not open the file /home/administrator/Desk?er-standard-demo-6.0.0.sh. gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again.
Character coding to current locale (utf-8) ? the default used for scripts.?
Therefore, you need to set the file to have executable permissions. By default for security, the installers are set to have no executable permissions. You can fix it with the command chmod 755 file that makes the file executable. Or you could right click on the exe file and set the executable permissions that way by activating the check on allow executable file as program.
Same goes with Crossover, run “install-crossover-standard-demo-6.0.0.sh and set it as an executable file.
EUREKA!
Thanks Alex for helping me out!