Realised that Ino longer had wine 1.1.26 installed. Updated wine and ran winetricks again, this time the results appear, to me, to be better: keith@keith-laptop:~$ sh Desktop/winetricks Renamed drive_c to harddiskvolume0 Executing wget -O vcredist_x86.exe -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/d/9/dd9a82d0-52ef-40db-8dab-795376989c03/vcredist_x86.exe --2009-07-28 09:24:34-- http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/d/9/dd9a82d0-52ef-40db-8dab-795376989c03/vcredist_x86.exe Resolving download.microsoft.com... 213.199.149.6, 213.199.149.7 Connecting to download.microsoft.com|213.199.149.6|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 4216840 (4.0M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `vcredist_x86.exe' 100%[============================================================================================================================>] 4,216,840 738K/s in 5.7s 2009-07-28 09:24:40 (720 KB/s) - `vcredist_x86.exe' saved [4216840/4216840] Executing wine /home/keith/.winetrickscache/vcrun2008sp1/vcredist_x86.exe fixme:clusapi:GetNodeClusterState ((null),0x32ec9c,0) stub! fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "c:\\49f33a0197e0cafdb2b0\\" 00000000 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x33f3a8,0x00000001,0x33f3d0) stub fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"keith" (nil) 0x8be458 (nil) 0x8be45c 0x8be450 - stub fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"keith" 0x14f010 0x8be458 0x14b688 0x8be45c 0x8be450 - stub fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"keith" (nil) 0x8be424 (nil) 0x8be428 0x8be41c - stub fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"keith" 0x16a5b0 0x8be424 0x1629b8 0x8be428 0x8be41c - stub fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction unhandled standard action L"SetODBCFolders" fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub MsiUnpublishAssemblies -> 10 ignored L"MsiAssembly" table values fixme:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim (0x7df3cd4c L"fusion.dll", (nil), (nil), 0x8be64c): semi-stub Install of vcrun2008sp1 done winetricks done. keith@keith-laptop:~$ Not sure about the renaming of drive_c though. Still unable to install even setup. Keith [Embarassed]