http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35537
--- Comment #16 from Nikolay Sivov bunglehead@gmail.com --- (In reply to Paull from comment #15)
HI Anastasius,
Apologies but, despite 30 years as an IT developer, Project Manager and Consultant, I only worked with proprietary IBM and Windoze operating systems and I'm a complete novice with Linux / Wine so you need to be gentle with me.
1)"Did you use a clean (new) WINEPREFIX for installation?" Don't understand WINEPREFIX. Just downloaded 1.6.1 from WineHQ then as suggested upgraded to 1.7.11
WINEPREFIX is an environment variable that contains a path to a dir that Wine uses to store its data, including installed application. You could think about it as a Windows partition, but it's not. It's just a directory. Default path that Wine uses is ~/.wine, but you can override that with WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-mygame for example if you like. Clean prefix means that no other application are installed, and that it's created with Wine version that you're using to start an application from this prefix. Easiest way to make sure it's clean is to remove this ~/.wine dir (this will remove all your applications installed using Wine and all the data stored in drive-like dirs for C:\ drive for example).
2)" something borked with your distro" Whoa, could you please repeat that in lanuage suitable for a bright teenager :-) and maybe suggest a solution
Wine project doesn't provide binary packages for distributions, only source code. After that it's a distro maintainer responsibility to build Wine, keep package up-to-date, deal with dependencies and so on.