Origin (EA Games) crashing during install/update

[mr_snakejazz]

Hi,

I have a problem getting the newest version of Origin to run under Wine.
Here are the facts:

Used OS: Ubuntu 19.10
Used Wine: wine-5.0-rc3 (Staging)
Winetricks: Yes
Winecfg: Set to Windows 7, no special libraries or dll overrides

What I tried:
I downloaded the installer from https://www.origin.com/deu/de-de/store/download and after changing to the download directory used

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wine OriginThinSetup.exe &> ~/Schreibtisch/o_inst_log.txt 2>&1

to start the setup. At first this seems to work fine (apart from some small font problems in one of the install windows) but after downloading the data for the update the installer crashes giving out a message about a critical error using UpdateTool.exe.

Below are the message from the terminal during the installation and the error details during the crash:
https://pastebin.com/mhiQAxPD
https://pastebin.com/g4h9D1xv

Apparently this error has existed in previous wine versions but should be gone in the newer ones
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38417
but the last successful test used an older version 4.17

Does someone have an idea what I can try to get it to run?

[Baryon]

I have the same issue - did you manage to fix it?

[gentoo_pinguin]

Install/update problems are known, but not all workarounds are mentioned here.
Simplest workaround other than installing wine-staging (due to fixed bug 44691 and others) is implemented in updateorigin.sh for litrus.

Here is the recipe for reference:

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wget https://download.dm.origin.com/origin/live/OriginSetup.exe
unzip OriginSetup.exe 'update/*.zip'
unzip -o ./update/*.zip -d Origin
rm -r ./update
rm OriginSetup.exe
wine Origin/Origin.exe

You may copy/move folder "Origin" to any place you need.