On 2010-04-23 (April, Friday) 08:17:48 grlongo wrote: > Thanks mate. > When you mean overrides you also mean downloads from winetricks???? Simply run this: mv ~/.wine{,.old} wineboot And try again. Some time ago I was able to run previous version of SolidWorks in Wine and even create something in it (2D sketch) but there was too many bugs (for example, it crashed when I tried to create a feature). And installing it in Wine wasn't trivial. I already reported first bug that blocks SolidWorks normal installation. Here it is: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17089 . If you experience same problem as this bug describes you may want to to register in the bugzilla and vote for it. I didn't try to install SolidWorks 2010 in Wine but your error looks like exactly the same error that blocks normal installation of SolidWorks 2009 in clean Wine. In the past somebody reported that SolidWorks 2009 works in Wine with just a few workarounds: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=6993 . You can try workarounds mentioned there with SolidWorks 2010. Please note that I didn't tried those workarounds myself.