I'm posting this so that it will show up in a search for folks having difficulty in installing mdac28.dll for a variuos applications using winetricks. I was stopped by issue #113 (Error 404 'Not Found' with winetricks installing mdac28/27/25) resulting from relocation of the setup file on the MS Downloads site, when I noticed that winetricks is a script. (Yes, well, I'm a newbie to linux!) So I took a look at it and found that the following work-around works with a local copy of the mdac installer. In a Linux terminal: 1. cp /usr/bin/winetricks to a safe place 2. cp /usr/bin/winetricks to an edit-able location 3. sudo chown [your user name]: [edit-able location]/winetricks 4. gedit [edit-able location]/winetricks 5. Search for load_mdac28 6. Comment out the first line of code in the subroutine beginning 'w_download mdac28 http://download.microsoft.com/download ....' 7. Save & exit gedit 8. sudo chown root:root [edit-able location]/winetricks 9. sudo cp [edit-able location]/winetricks /usr/bin/winetricks 10. mkdir /home/[your user name]/.cache/winetricks/mdac28 11. Go to MS Downloads site, search for MDAC_TYP.EXE and download it to /home/[your user name]/.cache/winetricks/mdac28/ 12. winetricks mdac28 This installed mdac28 for me. Finally, don't forget to restore your original winetricks from its safe place! As always, use at your own risk. Hope this helps someone :)
Hi, The underlying issue is that MS is changing download locations very often, this may be part of some weird security concept. MS is probably not doing this because of wine, from MS's point of view wine is still harmless, and will be for some time, because all the cool kids who want to play the newest games will stay with windows. It might still take one or two years, until wine might have a reasonable DX10/11 implementation. There is a bug tracker for winetricks, you should report the issue there: http://code.google.com/p/winetricks/issues/list
Thanks for the explanation. The bug is already reported as issue #113 for which I have voted (as in my post above)
This works for me. Current winetricks downloads from http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/a/a/4aafff19-9d21-4d35-ae81-02c48dcbbbff/MDAC_TYP.EXE which exists. Be sure you're using current winetricks; 20111115 should do, which you can get from http://winetricks.org/winetricks or svn.
Dan, Thanks for the update! Just shows that winetricks needs to be right up to date - my version is a couple of weeks old. JJj, It was beyond me to work out the location on the MS website - the download was established by .aspx - so I have not been able to update the issue with the current location.