Utterly_Frustrated wrote: > > When I downloaded the programme I was informed that it was not executable by Ubuntu. That's a problem with the security settings in recent versions of Ubuntu. Check the Ubuntu forum for details; there's a long thread about it. > Opened it by right click and clicked on execute in properties but when subsequently attempting to open via Wine programme loader nothing happens. > > Where am I going wrong? The AppDB entry says mfc42.dll is needed for newer versions of Irfanview. Install it with winetricks. http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7834 If that doesn't fix it, post terminal output. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal