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How to setup a Minecraft server on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

There is more than one way to skin a cat. So here is one way to put up a Minecraft server for you and your buddies to play on. This solution assumes you will be hosting the server on your local LAN, and therefore will need to transverse a NAT if you are to make the server available across the WAN (i.e. if you want your buddies to be able to connect to your server from their own LANs).

If you get stuck, feel free to contact me and I’ll help you out. For clarification purposes, the […]

(How to launch a *.msi file) wine: Bad EXE format for *.msi

I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. After installing Wine-1.2.2 (type wine –version to check) via sudo apt-get install wine within a CLI terminal, I tried to install a *.msi file via the following syntax:

~$ wine install.msi

Unfortunately, this produced the following error message to be displayed:

~$ wine: Bad EXE format for Z:homeziffstarinstall.msi

The solution, to install *.msi files in Wine, is to use the msiexec program. The appropriate syntax to launch a *.msi file is as follows:

~$ wine msiexec /i install.msi
                    OR
~$ wine start install.msi