These "demos" don't require installation, they just run as standalone. Here is the output from the terminal with no .wine directory in place. Code: wine fr-025-final2.exe wine: created the configuration directory '/home/mocha/.wine' fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on VF0350 Live! Cam Video IM, disabling mixer fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33d014 fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\xpti.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x20b7e4 (nil) fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0xa82e908, overlapped 0xa82e910): stub fixme:iphlpapi:GetAdaptersAddresses no support for IPv6 addresses fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\compreg.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x202ba74 (nil) fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub wine: configuration in '/home/mocha/.wine' has been updated. fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on VF0350 Live! Cam Video IM, disabling mixer fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f7c4,0x00000000), stub! fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x21f8e0,0x66d13c8): stub fixme:d3d_surface:surface_load_ds_location No up to date depth stencil location wine: Unhandled division by zero at address 0x7d713376 (thread 0009), starting debugger... In addition to this, inside the program window I get a GUI box titled "Program Error" and some text about checking wine's appdb page and to report a bug.