I am having trouble getting ArcView to setup under wine. I am relatively inexperienced with wine, so if I am missing an obvious step please feel free to tell me so. ArcView 9.1 requires Windows later than 98 (i.e. win2k, winxp). When I setup my config file specifying win98 the ArcView installer starts but quickly tells me that the application is not supported on this OS. Switching my config file to win2k (or winxp) I always get: fixme:thread:NtSetInformationThread Set ThreadImpersonationToken handle to (nil) fixme:thread:NtSetInformationThread Set ThreadImpersonationToken handle to 0x3c fixme:thread:NtSetInformationThread Set ThreadImpersonationToken handle to (nil) fixme:thread:NtSetInformationThread Set ThreadImpersonationToken handle to 0x44 fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceA ((null),"MsiInstaller"): stub fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW (L"",L"MsiInstaller"): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventA (0xcafe4242,0x0002,0x0000,0x000003f7,(nil),0x0006,0x00000000,0x7fc7c7b8,(nil)): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0002,0x0000,0x000003f7,(nil),0x0006,0x00000000,0x77ca35b8,(nil)): stub fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. I have downloaded and (tried to) install InstMsiW.exe. That appears to do nothing, just returning to the command prompt. I am not sure if I should have seen anything during that execution or not. I used InstMsiW.exe after successfully installing InstMsiA.exe. I *think* InstMsiW.exe is necessary because I am trying to simulate a 2k/XP environment. These are the files on the CD: Autorun.inf* Install.htm* Python/ Setup1.cab* setup.hlp* setup.msi* Support/ Documentation/ instmsiw.exe* Rainbow/ setup.exe* Setup.ini* startup.exe* I tried "wine instmsiw.exe" from the CD. Same uninformative result. "wine setup" fails the same as before. I have tried the directions here http://wiki.winehq.com/NativeMsi to no avail. Although to be honest I can follow those directions but I am not really sure what those directions mean. Google search turned up the same problem with a different app: http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-users/2005/01/0118.html wine --version: Wine 20050524 I did setup with winetools. Basic stuff like notepad, ie6 and the MS Office viewers are working. I believe I have gone through all the base setup steps. Any advice on steps to take? Thanks. -- Curt du Laney The Turtle Revolution is under way!