I installed wine 1.3.24 about 2 weeks ago on a newly installed F-15 system. I used that version because it seemed to be the recommended version (http://www.winehq.org/download/) for the Fedora/Red Hat platform. I have seen lots of comments that we should use as new a version of Wine as possible (but have not been told that, yet, for this problem). Should I install, say wine 1.3.29? I also assumed that since wine has been reported as working with fedora for some time, that it should work with this version of wine. I have googled extensively here and elsewhere for experiences with fedora and wine and most of the posts are 2-6 years old. I really appreciate the help offered. Unless new ideas to try come along, I see the following options; 1. move up to wine 1.3.29 2. re-install from the ground up f-15, wine, sketchup 3. fall back to f-14 4. move up to f-16 5. continue to use Win 7 and sketchup. The last option is not my favorite because everything else I do on a computer is on a fedora platform and has been for several years. Dave.