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Originally Posted by tantric

Although the initial bit with winetricks requires a final /, this part won't work with it. Ubuntu 12.04 Wine1.3. Except when I did it again, and it required them

Getting Wine1.3 to install is a BEAST. It wants to update to 1.4 because it can't find libesd0. Find DCOM98.EXE on the web and put it in your gca founder and let Wine run it in Win98 mode. This supplies you with oleaut32 or whatever. I just copied all of system32 and put in in my GURPS Character Assistant folder (which is not the GCA folder). Also, installing in the GCA dir utterly failed for me - it's in .wine (that's hidden wine) in home.

To be perfectly frank, I personally won't support anything but the latest release of Wine with these write-ups (as of this writing Wine 1.7 is the suggested branch from WineHQ) because for what little I still bother to maintain this thread (I use Windows primarily and only use Linux and Wine on VMWare) I can't be bothered to install an obsolete version. Wine 1.3 is several years old and every new iteration added additional compatibility across the board that bugs in such an old version might be fixed in newer ones. It makes no sense to use such an outdated version.

For that matter at one point I had to rewrite the instructions because Wine pushed out an update which broke the use certain native DLL because the Wine dlls were finally mature enough.