wine users - Oct 2008 - How to get started installing a Windows app under Wine

I hope you'll tolerate some real beginner questions.  I'm new to Linux
(Kubuntu 8.04) and even newer to Wine (1.1.5).

I've installed Wine via Adept Manager - install seems to have run correctly.

I'm now attempting to install my first application (PDFill Tools - not
rated, and I wouldn't be surprised if it won't work).

My problem...  I'm not sure I'm even starting the application
installation process correctly.

1. I've tried navigating to the installer using winefile and double-clicking
the installer.  When I do so, a pop-up or two go by, but so fast I can't see
what they say.  Then nothing - I'm back in the winefile display with no
indication that anything has happened.

2. I've also tried opening a terminal session, navigating to the directory
where the installer is, and typing "wine installername.exe" - it this
case, it appears wine doesn't like my syntax, gives a usage display for
msiexec (the choices and switches of which I don't understand either, for
that matter).

3. I've also tried "msiexec installername.exe" from the terminal,
but in that case I get fixme error message - fixme:msi:MSI_OpenDatabaseW open
failed r = 80030050 for L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msi1cd.tmp" (FWIW,
there's certainly no such file in the windows temp directory).

So:  Am I on fundamentally the wrong path, or should one of the approaches above
work as a starting point?  Should I try an install of some known-to-work program
first before trying my luck with PDFill?  And if I should, what's a good
public license program to try?

Thanks, Rob L

rlindau wrote:
> 
> 2. I've also tried opening a terminal session, navigating to the
directory where the installer is, and typing "wine installername.exe"
- it this case, it appears wine doesn't like my syntax, gives a usage
display for msiexec (the choices and switches of which I don't understand
either, for that matter).
> 
> 

It sounds like you may be running into this bug:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9628

Is there a demo for this app that can be downloaded somewhere?

The application I was trying to install is "PDFill PDF Tools Free v5"
available for free download here:
   http://www.download.com/PDFill-PDF-Tools-Free/3000-10743_4-10435051.html

Thanks, Rob L