How to install GENViewer Lite 1.15 on Ubuntu

I do a lot of genealogical research, and have downloaded and saved (in the download arrow at the top right of the Ubuntu window) a GEDcom file reader, but I can't get it to install on Ubuntu 16.04.

All I get is a folder full of other folders that do nothing.

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How to install GENViewer on Ubuntu?

1 Answer

The application seems to run well enough under Wine. I got it all running with the following three commands:

sudo apt-get install wine
wget
wine GENViewerLite.exe

I have not tested it extensively but below is a screenshot of it running on my Xenial installation:

Hopefully it will work well on your system too...