I installed wine-20040813 from source, then tried installing http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ (I think this gets a ways further than it did last time I tried it, yay.) Now it fails with the error I: Error installing Microsoft(R) .NET Framework. http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/b/2/eb247c2a-e6b3-4694-98a2-b27111… On the console, I saw only the four warnings/errors: fixme:msi:MsiInstallProductW L"/iH:\\IS3123.tmp\\netfx.msi" L"" fixme:msi:MSI_OpenDatabaseW open failed r = 80004005! Installation of /iH:\IS3123.tmp\netfx.msi () failed. err:dc:DCE_FreeWindowDCE [0x10026] GetDC() without ReleaseDC()! So I downloaded dotnetredist.exe and ran that by hand, and then ran the executable that unpacked. This failed with fixme:msi:MsiLocateComponentA "{A1B926EF-7FD9-11D2-A429-00A0C9E80AFB}" 0x4051ec84 00000105 fixme:msi:MsiLocateComponentA "{173A6EB3-6403-11D4-A53F-0090278A1BB8}" 0x4051ec84 00000105 That function, at least in my tree, is just a pseudostub: INSTALLSTATE WINAPI MsiLocateComponentA(LPCSTR szComponent, LPSTR lpPathBuf, DWORD *pcchBuf) { FIXME("%s %p %08lx\n", debugstr_a(szComponent), lpPathBuf, *pcchBuf); return INSTALLSTATE_UNKNOWN; } Sooo... what's the best way around this? Anyone tackle this before? Thanks, Dan -- My technical stuff: http://kegel.com My politics: see http://www.misleader.org for examples of why I'm for regime change