http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30270
--- Comment #22 from Sebastian nil094@yahoo.com 2012-05-20 10:11:51 CDT --- (In reply to comment #21)
Any news on this issue ?
Wouldn't bet my money on it, but I did find something out: After a somewhat heated debatte on #winehq on freenode (if you've been there that day, you might already know what I mean), it's possible that Ubuntu is the issue here.
Ubuntu has been "upgrading" its ia32-libs package, that'd usually provide backwards compatibility to 32bit applications on a 64bit installation, to use a relatively unstable handcrafted multiarch package. As it turns out, wine seems to assume that ia32-libs is installed (the ia32-libs package on ubuntu is just a dummy transitional package), but will not be able to detect the newer multiarch environment.
So, it's partly ubuntu and partly wine to blame. That's as far as I got. Sorry, but I will keep my eyes and ears open ;-)