wine users - Nov 2008 - Cannot install Visual C++ version 6.0 (VC6)

I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and Wine 1.1.8 and installed VC6 from a folder VC6 copied
from the installation CD.

I clicked the setup.exe file in the VC6 folder and the first page of the VC6
installation wizard showed, but when I clicked 'Next' the install failed
with message:

"ken at ken-desktop:~/Desktop/VC6$ wine setup.exe
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x411799
(thread 0009), starting debugger..."

Before trying 1.1.8, I used Wine 1.0.1 and it failed with the same message.

I Googled and found that the install failure was reported as a bug 2006, but the
Wine application database shows that people have successully installed and used
VC6 from Wine 1.1,5 (but not on Ubuntu).

I didn't have any luck installing though, so would be grateful for advice.

P.S.  I have successfully installed and used other Windows apps, some very
heavily GUI-laden with animation and sound, so the basic Wine install is working
both with 1.0.1 and 1.1.8.

The easiest way is to use winetricks.


Code:
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun6



http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

The most recent test in the AppDB says you also have to run winetricks dcom98 to
install VC6.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=31