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.