[Wine] Re: vcrun2008 refusing to install

[fosskers]

Okay, I've gone as far back as I possibly can. Completely nuked wine, winetricks, .wine, ~/.cache/winetricks, and reinstalled everything. Ran a winecfg. This is as fresh as it _could_ be, and yet "winetricks vcrun2008" still fails. 

I'm using wine-1.3.34 and winetricks-20111115. 

Even better, the installer is giving me the following handy message:
"The following error occurred during setup:
Installation failed."

WHAT could be going on here?