Need help to find workaround to install a certain software.

[Bamm]

I'm running Wine 5.0.2 and trying to install ASCOM Platform. Running the installer on a clean wineprefix, with wine-mono installed, it tells me that it needs .NET Framework 4.8.

I then installed dotnet48, with no errors, using the following command on winetricks:

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winetricks -q dotnet35sp1 dotnet40 dotnet472 dotnet48

(Note: the dotnet48 will only successfully install if 4.0 and 4.7.2 are installed)

Running the installer ASCOMPlatform65.exe fails near the end. The logs say that it is due to some DLL failing to be registered. All files were successfully installed, however.

Is there a workaround to install a software completely after this kind of failure?

I'm thinking if I can register them manually in wine, or maybe to find which registry keys get added in a real Windows install and import it in wine. But I'm not sure if these are a good thing to do, since I don't know how installations work in wine. I'm afraid it might do more harm than good and ruin the prefix (since registry entries seem to be a little different in wine than in Windows).

What advice can you give to complete the installation manually?

[Bamm]

If it will help you to try it out to see how to help me, ASCOM Platform is open source but Windows only.

https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMPlatform

Installation binaries can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCO ... 6.5Release