Run .Net applications on Ubuntu

1. you'll have to install wine and mono, standard compliant .NET compatible set of tools.

sudo apt-get install wine mono

2. run .net applications as common win32 program

wine /path/filename

3. you may suffer this kind of problem related to gdiplus.dll like below

wine: Call from 0x7b844b20 to unimplemented function gdiplus.dll.GdipCreateFontFamilyFromName, aborting

wine: Unimplemented function gdiplus.dll.GdipCreateLineBrushI called at address 0x7b844940 (thread 0009), starting debugger...

4. download gdiplus.dll from www.dll-files.com and put it in .wine/drive_c/windows/system32 then run again

Fonts of wine disappear on CentOS

Install Microsoft's TrueType core fonts

1. Make sure you have the following rpm-packages installed
# rpm-build
# wget
# ttmkfdir
# cabextract

2. Set up an rpm build environment in your home directory by adding the line %_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild to your $HOME/.rpmmacros and create the directories $HOME/rpmbuild/BUILD and $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch

3.
# Build the binary rpm
rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
# Install the newly built rpm (you will need to be root):
rpm -ivh $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
# Reload the X font server
/sbin/service xfs reload