Windows API for Linux
WineHQ- Running Windows program on Linux
Wine means “Wine Is Not a Windows Emulator.” It doesn’t emulate Windows; it’s an implementation of the Windows API for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and the BSD family of operating systems.
See steps here for installing Wine on Ubuntu
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
Here are some more helpful instructions for Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine
To add the Wine Ubuntu repository:
Open a terminal and run these commands:
wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository ‘https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
Enabling Windows C-Drive
The command below creates a fake C-drive on the Linux file system.
Create the drive before using Wine
winecfg
Executing a Windows executable using Wine
Copy a .exe to Linux file system and open it with Wine Windows Program Loader
Locating installed files after executing a .exe /MSI file
In your user/home folder make sure to enable — Show Hidden Files
And locate windows drive-C