http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12096
--- Comment #3 from Chad Sikorra chad.sikorra@gmail.com 2008-03-18 16:29:34 --- I can only find a download link for for a new version. We run version 8.01 here, and the download for the evaluation version is 8.4.3.
And, of course, the newer version doesn't have this issue. The newer version prompts that I need .net 1.1 installed for it to continue and it bombs out. After that was installed it prompts that it needs .net 2. So I installed that as well.
After installing the .net frameworks I was able to then get the installer for the 8.01 version to start without crashing. So it looks like the installer is crashing because it's not able to find some .net related components?
Would this be the fault of the application in this case and not wine then, since it does prompt for the .net components before it starts the install for the newer version?