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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    Thank you for all your replies. I have started looking through the article on bash-scripting. For someone who has never done any coding, it is a bit heavy going, but I will give it a try and see if I can learn. Thank you KGIII for supplying the link. In the meantime I might try again at WineHQ...
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    Thanks Dave. Tried all that and reinstalled Extractnow and it still didn't work. Any further ideas or is it time to give up? I do appreciate all your help, thank you. I have looked around at a lot of alternatives but nothing seems to do what Extractnow did.
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    Wine didn't list 32 bit or 64 bit that I could see. There are 2 columns in PlayonLinux: x86 and amd64. Both columns list 2.9 and 2.9 staging. Which should I use please?
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    To a newbie like me I don't know how to use a command line tool and I am not even sure what bash scripting is so thats probably not an option.
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    To give it the passwords, you list them all in a single text file, then go to settings to tell Extractnow where the text file is and it works its way through the list and decodes the files when it finds the passwords. It does this very fast and even decodes multi part files for RAR, 7z, Zip and...
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    Hi kc1di thanks for that help. I followed all those instructions and they all worked OK and placed a second icon on my desktop. But unfortunately neither icon works - they both open Extractnow but I could not open the Settings. Should I uninstall both occurrences of Extractnow and start again...
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    Yeah I do get that! But as you can from above post by Kc1di he (or she) managed to get it to work so hopefully I can overcome my stupidity and also get it working. But I realise it may eventually be time to call it quits.
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    I think all those alternatives will only extract one file at a time. Extractnow is (I think) unique in that it enables extraction of multiple files with different passwords at the same time. Please let me know if I have misread any of these alternatives.
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    Yes, well who knows why it crashed? I couldn't get an explanation from the service tech I took it to, he couldn't figure it out either. I live in a small town and we don't have many computer service techs here and most of them are a bit dodgy. I didn't reinstall, a tech did. It is 20.2 and the...
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    If you mean did I try to load Extractnow using Wine, then yes I did. Can you just try using Extractnow by clicking on the icon and then clicking Settings. If you get a list of Settings it will probably work. If there is no response, that is what I get (not working).
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    Your reply came across as unhelpful and critical of my asking. If I over-reacted, I apologise. Extractnow may be old but is the only one I have found to decode multiple files with multiple (different) passwords automatically. It did work previously on Linux so it should be able to work again. I...
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    I am sorry if you don't like me trying to get this software working again. To reply, yes I am pursuing it because it was working before the crash and now it is not. You could just ignore my post if you are not prepared to help me. Is that not what these forums are for?
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    How to install windows based software not in software manager

    Hi I am new to the board. I have been using Linux for a year but am still pretty useless at it. I had installed a Windows based program that I was using, https://extractnow.com/#/home, which took me a lot of stress to install and get working. Then Linux crashed and I have had to start again. I...
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