the script gave the following output: [giorgos@ ~]$ sh winetricks riched20 err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out Executing wget -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsp/Patch/RTF/NT4/EN-US/Q249973i.EXE --2009-02-12 11:33:37-- http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsp/Patch/RTF/NT4/EN-US/Q249973i.EXE Resolving download.microsoft.com... 87.248.217.197, 87.248.217.204 Connecting to download.microsoft.com|87.248.217.197|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 564736 (552K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `Q249973i.EXE' 100%[======================================>] 564,736 100K/s in 5.8s 2009-02-12 11:33:43 (95.5 KB/s) - `Q249973i.EXE' saved [564736/564736] Executing cabextract --directory=/home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp /home/giorgos/.winetrickscache/Q249973i.EXE Extracting cabinet: /home/giorgos/.winetrickscache/Q249973i.EXE extracting /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/riched20.dll extracting /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/riched32.dll extracting /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/hotfix.exe extracting /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/hotfix.inf extracting /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/symbols/dll/riched20.dbg extracting /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/symbols/dll/riched32.dbg All done, no errors. Executing cp -f /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/riched20.dll /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/riched32.dll /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: riched20 riched32 Executing wine regedit /home/giorgos/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/override-dll.reg err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out Install of riched20 done winetricks done.