How do I run exe files on debian 8.0?

[PhanatoFool]

I'm trying to run Pokemon Infinite Fusion on my Chromebook with Debian 8.0 but the terminal keeps saying that it "failed to open "/mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/LinuxFiles": c0000135" or "failed to open "/mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/Linuxfiles/InfiniteFusion/InfiniteFusion/Game.exe": c0000135", is there something I keep messing up?

 

[kc1di]

First welcome to the Linux.org forum.
You can not run an exe file directly in Linux. You would have to install wine or some other program to emulate a windows machine. And Debian 8.0 is very much out of date. the current stable is debian 13. So with debian 8 you may not be able to get it to work at all

 

[PhanatoFool]

First welcome to the Linux.org forum.
You can not run an exe file directly in Linux. You would have to install wine or some other program to emulate a windows machine. And Debian 8.0 is very much out of date. the current stable is debian 13. So with debian 8 you may not be able to get it to work at all

That makes a lot of sense, though I'm not exactly sure if I could update Debian from 8.0 to 13, but thanks for explaining that 8.0 was outdated.

 

[Brickwizard]

I'm not exactly sure if I could update Debian from 8.0 to 13,

Provided you have enough ram [min 2mb preferably 4 or more] you have a multicore 64 bit [twin core or more] CPU and a drive that is at least 32gb [more the better] then follow the method you used last time

 

[MikeWalsh]

@PhanatoFool :-

Welcome to Linux.org.....the friendliest general Linux forum online.

I'm trying to run Pokemon Infinite Fusion on my Chromebook with Debian 8.0 but the terminal keeps saying that it "failed to open "/mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/LinuxFiles": c0000135" or "failed to open "/mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/Linuxfiles/InfiniteFusion/InfiniteFusion/Game.exe": c0000135", is there something I keep messing up?

Heh.

Yeah. As m'colleague @Brickwizard has said, "Jessie" IS more than a wee bit behind the times! Originally released in 2015, even the final point release (8.11) would have been around 2018.

Not only have the repos for "Jessie" been offline for several years, no security updates will have been released for a very long time.....and the system infrastructure will be so far out-of-date that I seriously doubt any of it would be compatible with modern versions of WINE anyway, never mind trying to run current Windows apps...

(At that time, WINE had - after more than fifteen years - only struggled up to the late 3-series. In the last 3-4 yrs, development has gone through the stratosphere, accelerating through versions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and now far into the 10-series, with series 11 already well into 'beta'. Despite supposed compatibility with very elderly Windows software, in practice anything much before Win 7-era won't now run any longer, due to WINE - and by extension, Windows itself - having evolved so much...)

And asking a low-resource device like a Chromebook to run not only a 'chroot' Linux environment on top of its native OS, but also a Windows emulator inside of THAT is "pushing it", TBH.

I wish you luck. Without better hardware, I fear you're going to need it.....because ALL hardware has its limits. And Chromebooks never had much in the way of resources to begin with.


Mike.

 

[theLegionWithin]

@PhanatoFool what the make/model of the chromebook? would help to narrow down what (more recent) distros it can run

 

[PhanatoFool]

@PhanatoFool what the make/model of the chromebook? would help to narrow down what (more recent) distros it can run

I don't exactly remember what model it is but it's a Samsung Chromebook 4 if that helps.

 

[Brickwizard]

Welcome to the forum
ok so you have a Chromebook about 8 years old with a not very fast n4000 cpu and 4 mb ram but only a 32gb eMMC drive [also not very fast]
If you can put up with it being a little slow, then most medium or lightweight builds will work

some distributions recommended [not by me] for Chromebooks.

Debian with driver pack [not usually problematic but will need minimum 32 GB eMMC]
Elementary [doesn't have automatic update]
Gallium [made specifically for Chromebooks, often has sound problems depending on sound chip installed]
Q4S [ no known problems]
Lubuntu [no known problems]

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Don't use OS that is decades out of date is first step.
To actually run an *.exe file use wine.

 

[dos2unix]

Update your Linux as others have mentioned here. Install WINE.
Wine is a Microsoft Windows Emulator. It doesn't run everything, but it's not bad.
I would try that first.

If that doesn't work, you can always run a VM (Virtual Machine)

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Wine is a Microsoft Windows Emulator.

Can't resist to lecture you that wine is compatibility layer not emulator
There is a difference about emulator and compatibility layer.

Here is a good read:

Emulation, Virtualization & Compatibility Layers

blog.kartones.net

Compatibility layer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org