I followed the procedure in the other thread and patch says this: root@ubuntu:/home/buggy/wine# patch -p1 < p0.txt patching file configure.ac patch: **** malformed patch at line 15: WINE_CONFIG_MAKEFILE([dlls/amstream/Makefile],[dlls/Makedll.rules],[dlls],[ALL_DLL_DIRS]) Also, I'd rather not have wine globally on root, as the other thread describes. Can I just drop the patched executable (I assume that's what the first make will produce) into my local .wine? thanks, Robert