> >@James, > >Sorru I have misworded my response... > >I AM USING WINETRICKS! This was not stated and we cannot assume what you are doing. Bad Business Practice! :) > >I selected 1.1, 2.0, 2.0 SP and 3.0. > >1.1 and 2.0 installed fine. > >2.0 SP crashed and killed wine. > This may be a known problem. I have not attempted to install SP1 for .NET 2.0. I remember the presence of a Bug report for this. >I mean it killed wine... I get that same error message with ANY software I tried >to install afterwards. > Sorry to say, but you will have to start over again with a clean .wine directory (hopefully you were using a different 'bottle' or WINEPREFIX.) I always do the following (in a terminal session) when testing new software: [code] $ export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_test wine notepad winetricks dotnet2.0 [/code] Install other software for testing. James McKenzie