finally man­aged to get this work­ing. I think things are com­pli­cated when tar­get machine is 64 bit. I really was keen to get this run­ning on my net­book, and Acer Aspire One.

The steps are a bit scrappy and gleaned from var­i­ous blogs, but, basi­cally what I did was:

Fol­low the steps in this blog to get wine installed on Debian Test­ing. i.e. (as root):

ARCH=`uname -m | sed -e s/x86_64/amd64/ -e s/i.86/i386/`
wget -r -A "*_$ARCH.deb" http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/
sudo dpkg -i dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/*.deb

then hop over to this blog, and fol­low most of the steps in that. Don’t need to install wine as we’ve already got that now, in the­ory, but cabextract def­i­nitely handy.

actu­ally, think­ing about it, the only steps I ended up using were these:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks corefonts

I was get­ting closer all the time but still it crashed. Until I found this tip on the wineHQ website:

To work around the msvcp90 bugs, delete or rename ­this file:

~/.wine/drive_c/windows/winsxs/manifests/x86_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.4148_none_deadbeef.manifest

Note that Wine will recre­ate that file every time you upgrade. To avoid this, make the direc­tory read-only.

and now it works.