ah i see, i recompiled with gnutls USE flag: Code: bobby@main ~/Downloads $ emerge -pv wine These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-emulation/wine-1.2_rc5 USE="X alsa cups dbus gecko gnutls jpeg lcms ldap mp3 ncurses opengl oss perl png ssl threads truetype xml (-capi) -custom-cflags (-esd) -fontconfig (-gphoto2) -gsm (-hal) -jack -nas -openal -pulseaudio -samba (-scanner) -test -win64 -xcomposite -xinerama" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB the installation still seems to stall at the same point however (w/out the gnutls error message) Code: bobby@main ~/Downloads $ wine GrandFantasia_Install_20091202_csd.exe fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC90.CRT" (9.0.21022.8) fixme:ras:RasEnumConnectionsA (0x630607a8,0x64c8c8,0x6305f610),stub! fixme:ras:RasEnumConnectionsA RAS support is not implemented! Configure program to use LAN connection/winsock instead! fixme:service:EnumServicesStatusA 0x13bc98 type=30 state=1 0x64c650 240 0x64c894 0x64c89c 0x64c890 fixme:crypt:CRYPT_RegControl CERT_STORE_CTRL_AUTO_RESYNC: stub fixme:crypt:CRYPT_RegControl CERT_STORE_CTRL_AUTO_RESYNC: stub fixme:secur32:schan_InitializeSecurityContextW Using hardcoded "NORMAL" priority fixme:wintrust:HTTPSCertificateTrust (0x142b88) fixme:wintrust:HTTPSFinalProv (0x142b88) fixme:ras:RasEnumEntriesA ((nil),(null),0x64b284,0x64ba40,0x64ba3c),stub! fixme:crypt:CRYPT_RegControl CERT_STORE_CTRL_AUTO_RESYNC: stub fixme:crypt:CRYPT_RegControl CERT_STORE_CTRL_AUTO_RESYNC: stub fixme:secur32:schan_InitializeSecurityContextW Using hardcoded "NORMAL" priority fixme:msvcr90:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x3586dc) stub