I have: 1) uninstalled wine 2) Installed vmware tools 3) reboot 4) installed Recommended Packages with sudo sh ./install-wine-deps.sh 5 ) sudo apt-get build-dep wine1.3 6 ) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa 7) sudo apt-get update 8 ) sudo apt-get install wine1.3 Then I run wine and the k9 installation fails: this is the report andrea@computer:~/Documenti$ wine k9-webprotection.exe fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 andrea@computer:~/Documenti$