Thanks qwertymn > i gave it a quick try; looks like it needs gds32.dll (whatever that may be, but i had it lying around on my disk, you appear to have it though according to your log) Yes I have it it has two flavours one that comes with Firebird 1.5.x RDBMS Distribution and Another one is with Firebird 2.1.1. 1.5 one is @ 350 KB (msvcp60.dll and * required) and 2.1.1 one is 440 KB (msvcp60.dll and * required) I had 2.1.1 gds32.dll and installed required msvcp files through winetricks > It also needs madc; Try this: > Well just out of curiosity and etch to learn one question How did u concluded that from log or have tried any other winedebug channel ? > wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks && sh winetricks I already have it. > > That way i got the first window up > Oh u got it running it seems. I donot have any success even after installing mdac28 through winetricks. I am attaching log file for both installation of mdac28 and running IBDatapump. Thanks and Best Regards R. S. Patil -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: IBPump_log.txt Url: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080813/683680c9/attachment.txt