Ubuntu
file-roller package

  1. Bug #508120
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 508120

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Timmy Shih Jun Yee (shijun) wrote :

You may be experiencing this problem because File Roller can only open self-extracting archives. Most .exe files tend to be full-fledged Windows programs that have to be run in some compatibility software such as Wine.

Have you tried to open the .exe file with Wine? What happens when you do that?