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I have a USB stick mounted (it appears in the output of lsblk) and contains an executable file: PortablePGP.exe which has executable permission and a file: autorun.inf I do not know how to launch this program from Ubuntu 14.04.

If I click on it I get:

"STICK” contains software intended to be automatically started. Would you like to run it?

And when I click run I get:

Oops! There was a problem running this software. Unable to locate the program

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Files with the extension .exe are usually made for Windows, not for linux. In some cases such files can be run via Wine, but usually it is better to look for a linux program that can do the same or similar things.

In this particular case I think gpg is the linux alternative, and it comes (already installed) with Ubuntu. You can read man gpg and look for tutorials via the internet.

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