wine users - Mar 2009 - Problem with winetricks and msxml3, msxml4 and msxml6

Hi all.

I'm a bit of a newbie with wine, so please excuse me if I've messed up
somewhere. I'm trying to install msxml3 installed, so I've tried using
winetricks thus:

sh winetricks -v msxml3

This gives:
...
+ echo Executing wine msiexec /i /home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi
Executing wine msiexec /i /home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi
+ wine msiexec /i /home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi
+ status=103
+ test 103 -ne 0
+ die 'Note: command '\''wine msiexec /i
/home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi'\'' returned status 103.
Aborting.'
+ echo 'Note: command '\''wine msiexec /i
/home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi'\'' returned status 103.
Aborting.'
...

I can see the important bit is:
wine msiexec /i /home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi
and if I run this line manually, I get the same error: a pop-up dialog
box containing the words: "Incorrect command line parameters."

If, however, I copy msxml3.msi to .wine/drive_c/ and then I try:
wine msiexec /i c:\\msxml3.msi
then it installs perfectly.

This same problem also appears to affect msxml4 and msxml6 in a similar way.

I have a few questions:
a) Are my results caused by some anomaly with my os (a freshly
installed debian lenny with gnome desktop), or is it a bug?
b) Should I log a bug against winetricks?
c) What's the best way for me to proceed?

Many thanks for any advice you can offer. Jaime :-)

In your ~/.wine/dosdevices/ directory, do you have a symbolic link named z: that
points to /?

If not, that may be the problem.  I think Wine needs to have a DOS mapping of
the argument to be able to find it in the DOS/Windows world.  Drive z: covers
all bases, so it's created by default.

If that's not it, I don't have a clue either.  But there's no need
to apologize for being new.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:35 AM, j t <mark473 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm a bit of a newbie with wine, so please excuse me if I've messed
up
> somewhere. I'm trying to install msxml3 installed, so I've tried
using
> winetricks thus:
>
> sh winetricks -v msxml3
>
> This gives:
> ...
> + echo Executing wine msiexec /i /home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi
> Executing wine msiexec /i /home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi
> + wine msiexec /i /home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi
> + status=103
> + test 103 -ne 0
> + die 'Note: command '\''wine msiexec /i
> /home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi'\'' returned status
103.
> Aborting.'
> + echo 'Note: command '\''wine msiexec /i
> /home/nonroot/.winetrickscache/msxml3.msi'\'' returned status
103.
> Aborting.'
Are you on a non-english locale?


-- 
-Austin