It's been a long time since I used winetricks, but either I'm doing something wrong, or ??? I run Karmic Koala. susan@ubuntu:~$ sh winetricks mono22 Executing wget -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate ftp://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/2.2/windows-installer/5/mono-2.2-gtksharp-2.12.7-win32-5.exe --2009-06-10 07:43:22-- ftp://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/2.2/windows-installer/5/mono-2.2-gtksharp-2.12.7-win32-5.exe => `mono-2.2-gtksharp-2.12.7-win32-5.exe' Resolving ftp.novell.com... 130.57.1.88 Connecting to ftp.novell.com|130.57.1.88|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/mono/archive/2.2/windows-installer/5 ... done. ==> SIZE mono-2.2-gtksharp-2.12.7-win32-5.exe ... 81772825 ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR mono-2.2-gtksharp-2.12.7-win32-5.exe ... done. mono-2.2-gtksharp-2.12.7-win32-5.exe: Permission denied Note: command 'wget -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate ftp://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/2.2/windows-installer/5/mono-2.2-gtksharp-2.12.7-win32-5.exe' returned status 1. Aborting. susan@ubuntu:~$ sh winetricks ie6 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 --2009-06-10 07:45:33-- http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe Resolving download.microsoft.com... 68.142.91.196, 68.142.91.222 Connecting to download.microsoft.com|68.142.91.196|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1709160 (1.6M) [application/octet-stream] InstMsiA.exe: Permission denied Cannot write to `InstMsiA.exe' (Permission denied). Note: command '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' returned status 1. Aborting.