http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32859
--- Comment #6 from Anastasius Focht focht@gmx.net 2013-04-16 17:48:48 CDT --- Hello Austin,
--- quote --- Actually, it's fixed here in X 1.13.3. --- quote ---
Ubuntu 12.10, Wine 1.5.28 crashes the same way (heap corruption). Fedora 18, Wine 1.5.24 works (if winetricks recipe is manually fixed).
So people stuck on older distros are left out in the cold.
Just for completeness...
Wine introduced builtin "windowscodecsext.dll" starting with wine-1.5.24 which happens to be in the list of files to be checked for updates.
update_winxp.inf:
--- snip --- [Test.WindowsCodecsVer.Section] NotPresentOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WindowsCodecs.dll
LessOrEqualOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WindowsCodecs.dll,<=,%WIC_FILE_VERSION% Display_String="Newer version of update is already on the system."
[Test.WindowsCodecsExtVer.Section] NotPresentOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WindowsCodecsExt.dll
LessOrEqualOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WindowsCodecsExt.dll,<=,%WIC_FILE_VERSION% Display_String="Newer version of update is already on the system."
[Test.WMPhotoVer.Section] NotPresentOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WMPhoto.dll
LessOrEqualOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WMPhoto.dll,<=,%WIC_FILE_VERSION% Display_String="Newer version of update is already on the system."
[Test.PhotoMetadataHandlerVer.Section]
NotPresentOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,PhotoMetadataHandler.dll
LessOrEqualOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,PhotoMetadataHandler.dll,<=,%WIC_FILE_VERSION% Display_String="Newer version of update is already on the system." --- snip ---
You need to remove "WindowsCodecsExt.dll" placeholder from WINEPREFIX before running the installer. This prevents winetricks failure "Note: command 'wine wic_x86_enu.exe /passive' returned status 67. Aborting.".
Regards