http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25512
SSB silas-wine@flatline.org.uk changed:
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--- Comment #17 from SSB silas-wine@flatline.org.uk 2010-12-19 15:21:25 CST --- If you are having trouble getting Watchtower Library 2010 working on WINE, but you have Watchtower Library 2008, then you could first install Watchtower Library 2008 and then copy the rs_data folder from the Watchtower Library 2010 CD to .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Watchtower/Watchtower\ Library\ 2008/E (replacing E with whatever language you're installing). You'll then get the Watchtower Library 2008 program but with the Watchtower Library 2010 data, and it seems to work.
The 2009 program will NOT accept 2010's rs_data, but the 2008 program WILL. I believe 2007, 2006 and 2005 will also accept more recent rs_data versions. So this method can also be used if you're stuck with an old version of WINE (on an old distro on old hardware) which can't run the recent years' programs. For that matter this method can sometimes be used to update the data of broken Windows boxes that for whatever reason won't install a newer version of the program. Always rename (don't delete) the existing rs_data directory, in case its replacement does not work and you need to back off the change.
Of course it would be ideal to fix it so the latest program runs by itself, because we don't know how many minor hidden bugs might be introduced by using a different year's rs_data (and also it means you have to get hold of an old CD, which not everybody has). But the rs_data hack seems to be a good temporary fix.