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It is possible to use a very wide range of programs made for Windows on Linux. This was achieved by the hard work of more than 15 years of the Wine project. The Wine [1] is a program able to run natively on Linux applications made for Windows.

In Ubuntu enable the use of wine Wine installing the package, in a terminal:

  $ Sudo aptitude update 
  $ Sudo aptitude safe-upgrade 
  $ Sudo aptitude install wine 

It is important that the Ubuntu is updated before installing wine. Any reliance necessary for the functioning of wine will be installed automatically. (Want to learn install in graphical mode?)

Once installed we can start with the installation of Windows programs. Not all programs are compatible, but the quality to run applications by Wine is proven by the Linux version of Picasa photo software from Google that runs on Wine. A list of tested programs, programs can be found at the project site [2].

The installation of Macromedia Flash 8 is the same as in Windows, except for booting the installer to be made as follows, in a terminal:

  $ Flash8 wine-installer-en.exe 

Where flash8-installer-en.exe is the name of the file to install. Once installed, the program may be accessed by the menu "Applications" -> "Wine" -> "Programs" -> "Macromedia."

Below some screenshots of wine in action during the installation of Macromedia Flash in Ubuntu.

[1] - http://www.winehq.org/

[2] - http://appdb.winehq.org/