katsushiro wrote: > ok, well that does take care of that error. just puts me back to the original loop of trying to install MDAC. running winetricks not as root doesn't change the failure to install 2.7 or 2.8 though :( Did you fix the permissions errors you created by running as root? http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f60a1aeeb2e4ef08a9b26dd38fd4ea2b1608f358