k.s.matheussen at notam02.no : > I didnt understand that. What is happening at which configuration step? to avoid mistakes, i've uninstalled wine with make uninstall. then I've installed wine version suggested following this steps: 1) tar xvfj vstserver-0.2.7-wine.tar.bz2 cd wine ./tools/wineinstall 2) Configure finished. Do 'make depend && make' to compile Wine. We need to install wine as root user, do you want us to build wine, 'su root' and install Wine? Enter 'no' to continue without installing (yes/no)yes 3) Wine build complete. Performing 'make install' as root to install binaries, enter root password Password: 4) Found existing /home/axiom/.wine/config, do you want to overwrite this existing Wine configuration file? (yes/no) yes Would you like to make a backup of this old config file? (yes/no)no Searching for an existing Windows installation... not found. (no matching /etc/fstab mount entry found) Windows was not found on your system, so I assume you want a Wine-only installation. Am I correct? (yes/no)yes Configuring Wine without Windows. 5) Some fake Windows directories must be created, to hold any .ini files, DLLs, start menu entries, and other things your applications may need to install. Where would you like your fake C drive to be placed? (default is /home/axiom/c) Configuring Wine for a no-windows install in /home/axiom/c... Created /home/axiom/.wine/config using default Wine configuration. You probably want to review the file, though. Compiling regedit... make: Nothing to be done for `all'. Preparing to install default Wine registry entries... Installing default Wine registry entries... wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger... wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000b), starting debugger... wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000d), starting debugger... [loop here] when I press ctrl+c to stop it, I get: err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c000013a flags 0 addr 0x402c76c6 err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c000013a flags 0 addr 0x402c76c6 err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c000013a flags 0 addr 0x402c76c6 err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c000013a flags 0 addr 0x402c76c6 Registry install failed. Luca