Try running winetricks verbosely, e.g. winetricks -v gdiplus 2>&1 or sh -x winetricks gdiplus > log 2>&1 Then look at the log. This already shows what you need, I think. On my system, the interesting bit is + verify_sha1sum b9a84bc3de92863bba1f5eb1d598446567fbc646 /home/dank/.winetrickscache/./WindowsXP-KB975337-x86-ENU.exe + wantsum=b9a84bc3de92863bba1f5eb1d598446567fbc646 + file=/home/dank/.winetrickscache/./WindowsXP-KB975337-x86-ENU.exe ++ sha1sum ++ sed 's/ .*//' + gotsum=b9a84bc3de92863bba1f5eb1d598446567fbc646 + '[' b9a84bc3de92863bba1f5eb1d598446567fbc646x '!=' b9a84bc3de92863bba1f5eb1d598446567fbc646x ']'