@dimesio Thanks very much. At least I know it can work then which is indeed comforting (put a hell of a lot of time into my Linux home setup!). So I tried again this morning. I reinstalled Wine 1.3.21 from from PPA, downloaded latest Winetricks and reinstalled Friefox 3.6 from the winetricks menu. All OK at that point. However, the command $sh winetricks flash did not work (tried several times , deleting the .cache files as it suggested). I also got the same result with $sh winetricks shockwave. Here's the output from the flash attempt. Any ideas anyone? The .cache dir is full accessible by the user and there's no problem with the network, the downloads seemed to proceed fine: Code: melanie@Mel-P4:~/Downloads$ sh winetricks flash Executing w_do_call flash Executing load_flash Executing mkdir -p /home/melanie/.cache/winetricks/flash Downloading http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe to /home/melanie/.cache/winetricks/flash --2011-06-23 10:20:43-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 95.100.178.70 Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|95.100.178.70|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3120288 (3.0M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `install_flash_player_ax.exe' 100%[======================================>] 3,120,288 1.61M/s in 1.9s 2011-06-23 10:20:45 (1.61 MB/s) - `install_flash_player_ax.exe' saved [3120288/3120288] ------------------------------------------------------ Checksum for /home/melanie/.cache/winetricks/flash/install_flash_player_ax.exe did not match, retrying download ------------------------------------------------------ Downloading http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe to /home/melanie/.cache/winetricks/flash --2011-06-23 10:20:45-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 95.100.178.70 Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|95.100.178.70|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3120288 (3.0M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `install_flash_player_ax.exe' 100%[======================================>] 3,120,288 1.60M/s in 1.9s 2011-06-23 10:20:47 (1.60 MB/s) - `install_flash_player_ax.exe' saved [3120288/3120288] ------------------------------------------------------ sha1sum mismatch! Rename /home/melanie/.cache/winetricks/flash/install_flash_player_ax.exe and try again. ------------------------------------------------------ melanie@Mel-P4:~/Downloads$
