[sorry for last, incomplete message] I can't run anything with Wine 20031016 and Mandrake Linux 9.1 using default configuration. Trying to run Adobe Acrobat. #wine AcroRd32.exe err:reg:_w95_dump_dke dke pointing to missing dkh ! err:reg:_convert_win95_registry_to_wine_format last dke invalid ! err:reg:_convert_win95_registry_to_wine_format Unable to load native win95 registry file L"C:\\windows\\user.dat". err:reg:_convert_win95_registry_to_wine_format Please report this. err:reg:_convert_win95_registry_to_wine_format Make a backup of the file, run a good reg cleaner program and try again! wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger... [andrew@localhost Reader]$ Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x40165e05 Trying to run notepad # wine notepad.exe err:reg:_w95_dump_dke dke pointing to missing dkh ! err:reg:_convert_win95_registry_to_wine_format last dke invalid ! err:reg:_convert_win95_registry_to_wine_format Unable to load native win95 registry file L"C:\\windows\\user.dat". err:reg:_convert_win95_registry_to_wine_format Please report this. err:reg:_convert_win95_registry_to_wine_format Make a backup of the file, run a good reg cleaner program and try again! wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger... err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x40165e05 I installed wine from RPMs and ignored the failed dependency for perl(strict). I have Perl, what is Perl(strict)? # rpm -q wine libwine1 perl wine-20031016-1mdk libwine1-20031016-1mdk perl-5.8.0-19mdk # rpm -V wine libwine1 perl Unsatisfied dependencies for wine-20031016-1mdk: perl(strict) .M...... c /etc/rc.d/init.d/wine S.5..... /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/signal.ph #uname -a Linux localhost 2.4.21-0.13mdk #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux