Installing .NET 4.0 Framework on Wine using Winetricks

Question

I use Xubuntu 12.04 and I installed Wine 1.4. I am now trying to install the .NET 4.0 Framework using Winetricks. I use this command

sudo sh winetricks dotnet40

But I get this error

wine cmd.exe / c echo '% ProgramFiles%' returned empty string

I get this error when I try to install other programs as well. I have managed to install .NET Framework 4.0. previously, but now I can not get this install to go smoothly. How can I resolve this error?

You can find an in-depth tutorial at [ask-ubuntu](https://askubuntu.com/questions/548909/running-net-4-0-application-with-wine) https://askubuntu.com/questions/548909/running-net-4-0-application-with-wine — pd12, May 28 '16 at 09:09

score 18 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 30 '20 at 08:01

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Try this:

$ sudo apt-get install winetricks
$ winetricks dotnet40

To install using gui, you can try winetricks --gui, than choose install app, than cancel and in new window, choose install windows part or library. There are dot net dependencies.

To show installed things, you can winetricks list-installed.

edited Jul 30 '20 at 08:01

Lubo

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answered Sep 19 '14 at 17:51

Santi Barbat

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Works on Ubuntu 20.04. I advise to use the command line, not the gui. Might throw some message boxes, which is annoying. – Valentin Grégoire Sep 08 '21 at 08:45

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '16 at 15:33

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For a 64bit system you need to make a 32bit prefix and put the dotnet4.0 in it.

So:

wget http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/winetricks

Then:

env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winetricks dotnet40

answered Apr 07 '16 at 15:33

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`wget http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/winetricks`: `2018-09-24 13:41:51 ERROR 404: Not Found.` – Ferrybig Sep 24 '18 at 11:42

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 19 '12 at 06:36

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did you get the file first? Try the following:

$ wget http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/winetricks

$ bash winetricks dotnet40

WineHQ gives .NET 4 a bronze rating at best. Its ability to install and run properly will vary by which version of Wine you are running.

answered Sep 19 '12 at 06:36

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The googlecode URL is gone - do we have a replacement? Or do we need one? There's either the Github repo (https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks) or you can try to install it yourself from the distro's repos. It came with my version of `wine` on Ubuntu 16.04. – icedwater Jun 08 '17 at 02:15

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