http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3529
------- Additional Comments From joshua@mcgees.org 2005-12-10 18:24 ------- Dan, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that support for the standard installer was not necessary.
I did, however, get the standard installer to mostly work. By
1) installing wine-config-sidenet-1.8.6.tgz (http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html) first (installs IE), then 2) running "apt-get install wine" on my Debian system, with wine.sourceforge.net in my sources list, to upgrade to 20050930, then 3) running Turbo Lister's setupUS.exe,
I was walked through the installation. None of the fonts were visible, so I had to do it blind, but that's mostly an issue of clicking the second button from the left in every dialog. On the third dialog, the one with two text fields, I had to type my "company" name blind in the second field.
I can then run the software, and it fetches my information from eBay (presumably, even though I cannot see it; it would not have allowed me to proceed if it couldn't download my info.) Then it croaks when the main app window appears, as per Bug 3496.
So I don't think this bug is valid, and could be replaced with an AppDB entry telling you to have IE installed first, if that indeed is the determining factor. There may need to be a bug entry, however, for the fonts not appearing in the installer, if there is not a known workaround for this sort of thing.