I have been working on this for a few days. I am using winetools9 to complete the setup of my wine. I am doing the install of IE6 and it says I don't have mfc40.dll. The problem is I do. I have tried copies from online. I have copied them from my Win98 and WinXP versions. I still can not get the thing to run. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Have you tried running winecfg and specifying it as either 'built-in' or 'native'?

That would not be a problem if it showed up on the dll list. It doesn't even show. It is like it doesn't exist in the eyes of wine.

Where did you put the DLL file?

I'm pretty sure you need to put it into your /home/username/.wine/drive_c/Windows/System or System32 directory for them to show up correctly.

The file is there. That is why I am having the problem. The file is in the folder, but it says it does not exist. What do I do?

Why oh why would you want to install Internet Explorer on Linux anyway? IE is very heavily hooked into Windows so you'll have a great deal of trouble installing it (if it ever works)

I am not instaling it to use. Trust me, I know there are much better browsers. I am a Firefox fan. I am using it because some of the programs I am adding to wine require IE to be on the computer. If it was not for that, I would not be posting this. That's what makes this even more frustrating. I know I am never going to use the thing.

dlls dont usually show up in winecfg until you add them. What you do is add your app in applications tab, then highlight it and switch to dll tab. Next put the dll name in the top box, click add, and use edit to change built-in/native

As a side note I only had to make shdocw.dll as built-in for IE to work. I also had windows version for IE as win 98 if it helps.

That didn't work either. This is driving me crazy.

This is what I get when I run it. Can any one translate?

Reggie@2[~]$ wine ie6setup.exe
fixme:advapiecryptFileA "C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP003.TMP\\" 00000000
fixme:setupapi:SETUPX_CreateStandardLDDs LDID_SRCPATH: what exactly do we have to do here ?
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_SETFONT: stub
fixme:setupapi:GenInstall16 unsupported flag: GENINSTALL_DO_REGSRCPATH
fixme:setupapi:vcpUICallbackProc16 (0xfba0, 0705, 0000, 00000000, 7fd5996c) - semi-stub
fixme:setupapi:vcpUICallbackProc16 (0xfba0, 070f, 0000, 00000000, 7fd5996c) - semi-stub
fixme:setupapi:vcpUICallbackProc16 (0xfba0, 0710, 0000, 00000000, 7fd5996c) - semi-stub
fixme:setupapi:vcpUICallbackProc16 (0xfba0, 070b, 0000, 00000000, 7fd5996c) - semi-stub
fixme:setupapi:vcpUICallbackProc16 (0xfba0, 070c, 0000, 00000000, 7fd5996c) - semi-stub
fixme:setupapi:GenInstall16 unsupported flag: GENINSTALL_DO_CFGAUTO
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil) (thread 000c), starting debugger...
WineDbg starting on pid 0xa
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x00000000).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:119f GS:0033
EIP:00000000 ESP:7a953c84 EBP:7a953d20 EFLAGS:00210246( - 00 -RIZP1)
EAX:7bfe0000 EBX:7bff9678 ECX:00000000 EDX:7bff4b87
ESI:00000000 EDI:7bfffddc
Stack dump:
0x7a953c84: 7bfe9a70 7bfe0000 7bff4b87 7a953d0c
0x7a953c94: 0000baf9 000011ce 0000008c 00000082
0x7a953ca4: 00000000 000000aa 00000000 0000004b
0x7a953cb4: 000000a9 0000000b 00000000 00000000
0x7a953cc4: 00000000 7bff4cf8 7a953cd4 00000001
0x7a953cd4: 7bff4af7 7fd5aa38 7bff4b09 7fd5aa68
0233: sel=119f base=7fcd4000 limit=00001fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>1 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
2 0x7bfea299 DllRegisterServer+0x5d9 in urlmon (0x7bfea299)
fixme:dbghelp:sffip_cb NIY on 'advpack.pdb'
3 0x715f4c3b in advpack (+0x4c3b) (0x715f4c3b)
4 0x715f880b in advpack (+0x880b) (0x715f880b)
5 0x715f98a3 in advpack (+0x98a3) (0x715f98a3)
6 0x715f9e9b in advpack (+0x9e9b) (0x715f9e9b)
fixme:dbghelp:sffip_cb NIY on 'ie6wzdex.pdb'
7 0x010167a3 in ie6wzd (+0x167a3) (0x010167a3)
8 0x0100b966 in ie6wzd (+0xb966) (0x0100b966)
9 0x7fc45fdb in kernel32 (+0x75fdb) (0x7fc45fdb)
10 0x7ffbbee8 in ntdll (+0x4bee8) (0x7ffbbee8)
11 0xb7ec1ced start_thread+0x6d in libpthread.so.0 (0xb7ec1ced)
12 0xb7e55dde __clone+0x5e in libc.so.6 (0xb7e55dde)
0x00000000: addb %al,0x0(%eax)
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (76 modules)
PE 0x01000000-01034000 Export ie6wzd
ELF 0x44a0e000-44a2e000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 0x4564a000-45655000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 0x4f790000-4f799000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
PE 0x65f00000-65fc2000 Deferred ole32
PE 0x70100000-70153000 Deferred rpcrt4
PE 0x715f0000-71617000 Export advpack
PE 0x716a0000-716a7000 Deferred w95inf32
ELF 0x7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 0x7bf62000-7bfaa000 Deferred wininet<elf>
\-PE 0x7bf70000-7bfaa000 \ wininet
ELF 0x7bfaa000-7bfca000 Deferred cabinet<elf>
\-PE 0x7bfb0000-7bfca000 \ cabinet
ELF 0x7bfca000-7c000000 Export urlmon<elf>
\-PE 0x7bfe0000-7c000000 \ urlmon
ELF 0x7d03a000-7d090000 Deferred setupapi<elf>
\-PE 0x7d050000-7d090000 \ setupapi
ELF 0x7d1f4000-7d23c000 Deferred riched20<elf>
\-PE 0x7d200000-7d23c000 \ riched20
ELF 0x7d23c000-7d250000 Deferred riched32<elf>
\-PE 0x7d240000-7d250000 \ riched32
ELF 0x7e223000-7e280000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 0x7e240000-7e280000 \ shlwapi
ELF 0x7e280000-7e350000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 0x7e2a0000-7e350000 \ shell32
ELF 0x7e35f000-7e391000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 0x7e370000-7e391000 \ uxtheme
ELF 0x7eb5b000-7eb77000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 0x7eb60000-7eb77000 \ imm32
ELF 0x7eb77000-7eb94000 Deferred ximcp.so.2
ELF 0x7eb94000-7f2e5000 Deferred libglcore.so.1
ELF 0x7f2e5000-7f35d000 Deferred libgl.so.1
ELF 0x7f35d000-7f428000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 0x7f428000-7f440000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 0x7f440000-7f4c5000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 0x7f450000-7f4c5000 \ winex11
ELF 0x7f4c5000-7f4f4000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 0x7f4f4000-7f508000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 0x7f508000-7f575000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 0x7f575000-7f589000 Deferred lz32<elf>
\-PE 0x7f580000-7f589000 \ lz32
ELF 0x7f589000-7f5a2000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 0x7f590000-7f5a2000 \ version
ELF 0x7f5a2000-7f666000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 0x7f5b0000-7f666000 \ comctl32
ELF 0x7f666000-7f685000 Deferred mpr<elf>
\-PE 0x7f670000-7f685000 \ mpr
ELF 0x7f685000-7f7b8000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 0x7f6a0000-7f7b8000 \ user32
ELF 0x7f7b8000-7f86e000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 0x7f7d0000-7f86e000 \ gdi32
ELF 0x7f86e000-7f8b0000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 0x7f880000-7f8b0000 \ advapi32
ELF 0x7fbb9000-7fcc0000 Export kernel32<elf>
\-PE 0x7fbd0000-7fcc0000 \ kernel32
ELF 0x7fcc2000-7fcd0000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 0x7fcdb000-7fce0000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 0x7fdf2000-7fdf7000 Deferred libxxf86dga.so.1
ELF 0x7fdf7000-7fe00000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 0x7fe00000-7fe0c000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 0x7fe0c000-7fe16000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 0x7fe16000-7fe2c000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 0x7fe2c000-7fe35000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF 0x7fe35000-7fe3e000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 0x7fe3e000-7fe41000 Deferred iso8859-1.so
ELF 0x7fe41000-7fe44000 Deferred xlcdef.so.2
ELF 0x7fe47000-7fe6d000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 0x7fe6d000-7ff63000 Deferred libwine_unicode.so.1
ELF 0x7ff63000-7ffe0000 Export ntdll<elf>
\-PE 0x7ff70000-7ffe0000 \ ntdll
ELF 0xb7d80000-b7d84000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF 0xb7d84000-b7ebc000 Export libc.so.6
ELF 0xb7ebc000-b7ece000 Export libpthread.so.0
ELF 0xb7ece000-b7ed0000 Deferred libnvidia-tls.so.1
ELF 0xb7edd000-b7ef7000 Deferred libwine.so.1
ELF 0xb7ef9000-b7f11000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000a (D) C:\windows\temp\IXP003.TMP\ie6wzd.exe
0000000c 0 <==
0000000b 0
00000008
00000009 0
Wine exited with a successful status

And you have tried installing from within winetools? What happens? Same errors?

That was after the winetools addition.