Okay went to did this ... $ sh winetricks picked the package ie6 (the one you said i believe) i got an error and abort message and this in terminal: nick@linux-box:~$ sh winetricks Cannot find cabextract. Please install it (e.g. 'sudo apt-get install cabextract' or 'sudo yum install cabextract'). Executing wget -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe --2009-02-21 23:41:48-- http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe Resolving download.microsoft.com... 87.248.218.234, 87.248.218.205 Connecting to download.microsoft.com|87.248.218.234|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1709160 (1.6M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `InstMsiA.exe' 100%[====================================>] 1,709,160 350K/s in 4.8s 2009-02-21 23:41:53 (347 KB/s) - `InstMsiA.exe' saved [1709160/1709160] Executing cabextract --directory=/home/nick/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp /home/nick/.winetrickscache/InstMsiA.exe winetricks: 1717: cabextract: not found Note: command 'cabextract --directory=/home/nick/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp /home/nick/.winetrickscache/InstMsiA.exe' returned status 127. Aborting. nick@linux-box:~$