Latitude E6400 BIOS update

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Hi, this is the second time I installed Zorin OS, I think is an amazing OS

I have installed it on a Dell laptop as described above, I installed wine using the command sudo apt-get install zorin-windows-app-support and it just worked fine, I tested a surveillance program called contacam and worked wonderfully, but now Im trying to install a BIOS update witch is on the .exe format but when I run it, it displays an error message.

I tried both, “open with: install windows application” and “open with: wine windows program loader”, but the same error

If this is not the way Id like to know the right procedure to update my laptop’s BIOS version, thank you for your time.

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two things to say you:

  1. doing a BIOS update if you don't have problems IS NOT A GOOD THING.
  2. you can't do an update using wine(windows app support), if you really need to update BIOS, you can use other ways
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ONLY IF YOU REALLY REALLY NEED

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000131486/update-the-dell-bios-in-a-linux-or-ubuntu-environment

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and to know if using uefi or legacy:

ls /sys/firmware/efi

if shows

ls: cannot access '/sys/firmware/efi': No such file or directory

your using efi. if it shows any other things, your using legacy...
hope i helped @servitec

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Amazing your assistance, thank you very much, as soon as I can and if I consider necessary I'll create a feedback about this thread. @Nicolaco_08

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this kind word make my day. marveillous!!