Thanks for replying. I didn't include the name of the app for two reasons, firstly it is in the first line of the error message and secondly nobody has ever heard of it so I didn't think it would make that much difference. Anyway, if it helps you, it is called Canal Planner 6. It isn't in the App database and I wouldn't really expect it to be as it is old and obscure but something which has no linux equivalent and something I use very regularly. You may be interested to know that about a year ago I did have it running in an older version of wine but later switched to running it in Virtualbox instead. However I would now like to go back to running it under Wine but I can't make it happen with the present version. Hope that helps, but I don't suppose it will!