Alright ran winetricks ie6, but had to add sh to the front, I got this: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: cabextract 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 55.4kB of archives. After this operation, 197kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe cabextract 1.2-3 [55.4kB] Fetched 55.4kB in 1s (40.5kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package cabextract. (Reading database ... 107553 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking cabextract (from .../cabextract_1.2-3_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up cabextract (1.2-3) ... chase@Phillip:~$ sh winetricks ie6 Executing cabextract --directory=/home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp /home/chase/.winetrickscache/InstMsiA.exe Extracting cabinet: /home/chase/.winetrickscache/InstMsiA.exe extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/msi.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/msiexec.exe extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/msihnd.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/msisip.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/msimsg.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/msimain.sdb extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/msiinst.exe extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/riched20.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/usp10.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/msls31.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/shfolder.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/instmsi.msi extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/imagehlp.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/cabinet.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/mspatcha.dll extracting /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/sdbapi.dll All done, no errors. Executing cp -f /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/msls31.dll /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 Executing wine iexplore -unregserver Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: iexplore.exe itircl itss jscript mlang mshtml msimtf shdoclc shdocvw shlwapi urlmon Executing wine regedit /home/chase/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/override-dll.reg mv: cannot stat `/home/chase/.wine/drive_c//home/chase/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe': No such file or directory Executing wget -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6sp1/download/rtw/x86/ie6sites.dat --2009-05-09 16:38:06-- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6sp1/download/rtw/x86/ie6sites.dat Resolving www.microsoft.com... 207.46.19.190, 207.46.19.254 Connecting to www.microsoft.com|207.46.19.190|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2788 (2.7K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `ie6sites.dat' 100%[======================================>] 2,788 --.-K/s in 0.006s 2009-05-09 16:38:06 (453 KB/s) - `ie6sites.dat' saved [2788/2788] Executing wget -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/ie6setup.exe --2009-05-09 16:38:06-- http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/ie6setup.exe Resolving download.microsoft.com... 216.115.128.166, 216.115.128.164 Connecting to download.microsoft.com|216.115.128.166|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 491768 (480K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `ie6setup.exe' 100%[======================================>] 491,768 229K/s in 2.1s 2009-05-09 16:38:09 (229 KB/s) - `ie6setup.exe' saved [491768/491768] fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x12c9f8 0x32fd78) stub! fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP000.TMP\\" 00000000 fixme:storage:StgCreateDocfile Storage share mode not implemented. fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_CreateIconFromANI Loading all frames for .ani cursors not implemented. fixme:advpack:NeedReboot (0): stub Install of ie6 done winetricks done. I still get the same error message though. so now what?