jorl17 wrote: > Does that *exact same* executable work in Windows? Could the download have corrupted it? > > A simple google query shows up similar questions. For instance: http://www.emailquestions.com/help-desk/995-do-i-fix-7-zip-error.html (proposes a simple solution) or http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=103043 > > It might or might not be a Wine bug, but you should be able to get away with it by manually extracting the file with a file extractor and 7-zip support. nevertheless, that console log would be helpful if this doesn't work. > > Also, if it does work, try it out in a Windows machine to see if it's a Wine bug, please. > > Cheers, > Jorl17 Since it is an .exe file there would be no need to extract anything. I did read that post but it looks like it is more related to archive files, not executables. I cannot get a console to come up on this, the minute I do anything with the file I immediately get the 7z error and it closes the window in focus.