Hello, all.

I'm trying to install a Windows program using Wine 1.4 on a Lubuntu
12.04 box. After the install, I get a message that the program requires
SP3 to run. I haven't found any way to trick Wine into thinking that
SP3 is installed. And no, there isn't any native Linux program that
does the job for me. The program is from the LDS Church and contains
the scriptural corpus.

Can anyone please tell me whether this is even possible, whether I can
get Wine to think that SP3 is installed so that I can proceed with the
installation of the program?

Thanks.

Wine reports itself as XP SP3. It's possible the app is checking for Wine-specific registry keys and refusing to run, in which case there's nothing you can do about it, but it's more likely that message is a generic message the app throws up when something goes wrong.

Read the sticky at the top of the forum for Ubuntu 12.04, and try the workaround in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30410. If it still doesn't work, post terminal output. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

Thanks so much. I'll continue working with it.

Are you talking about LDS View?

That currently doesn't install, see
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27889

Indeed. Are you familiar with it? Have you successfully installed it with Wine?