this is a post off of another website that I found for trying to troubleshoot I don't want to post a link to that forum(guidlines you know)so I'll just put what they had to say.
-1) oh yeah, the wine i downloaded was the newest codeweavers wine version. The only prob I have is that it displays an error in the console about not being able to find xmessage which "wine relies on heavily" I know that when I type gmessage in the console, it displays the line xmessage [something] [application]. SO is gmessage Mandrake's version of xmessage?
-2) I used that wine version. Installed it using their automated installer (just follow the stuff on the page).
After installation, it should just work. Oh yeah, if you have drake then there's a little problem, you won't have xmessage, which Wine needs.
-3) Drake renamed xmessage to gmessage. so you have to do this:
in command, su root,
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/gmessage /usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage
That should do it for ya.
Don't know if that helps any, I'm still trying to find xmessage for drake. untill then I'm using desktop l/x (which is not as nice as drake IMO) and as you saw in my other post l/x doesn't read PERL files but I'm gonna try what you recomended! and THANK YOU you have been a lot of help!!!!