James,<br><br>I did what you suggested, changed /etc/apt/sources.list and upgraded to:<br><br>jack@ubuntu:$ wine --version<br>0.9.18<br><br>Okay. So I tried to re-install from the CD:<br><br>jack@ubuntu:/media/cdrom$ wine setup.exe<br><br><br>Microsoft VM<br>The Microsoft VM is now being installed on your computer<br>Installing Component: XML Classes<br><br><br>then I get the error:<br><br><br>Java Package Manager:<br>Unable to install Java packages from<br>c:\windows\Java\classes\xmldso.cab<br>Unknown HRESULT: (80070002h)<br><br><br>and the terminal displays:<br><br><br>jack@ubuntu:/media/cdrom$ fixme:setupapi:extract_cabinet_file awful hack: extracting cabinet "C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP000.TMP\\javabase.cab"<br>fixme:wintrust:WintrustAddActionID 0x34fd80 0 0x34fd1c<br>fixme:setupapi:extract_cabinet_file awful hack: extracting cabinet "C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP000.TMP\\javax86.cab"<br>fixme:ole:ITypeInfo_fnRelease destroy child
objects<br><br><br>???<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Jack.<br><br><br><b><i>James Hawkins <truiken@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 8/2/06, John McHenry <john_d_mchenry@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>> Hi James,<br>><br>> You're suggesting that I upgrade Wine from the version available to Ubuntu<br>> 6.06 (namely, 0.9.9) because of one of the error messages; does that mean<br>> that previous versions (i.e. 0.9.18 or less) could *not* install from CDROM,<br>> but that 0.9.18 can?<br>><br><br>No, 0.9.9 is missing functionality that you need to install this app,<br>namely RunSetupCommand and all of advpack, which the latest version of<br>Wine has. It's not about running the installer from the CD.<br><br>-- <br>James Hawkins<br></john_d_mchenry@yahoo.com></blockquote><br><p> 
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