Unable to install Photoshop CS6 under Win 9.0.0 in Mint & MX

[LateJunction]

Apologies for posting on a topic which has been discussed multiple times in the past. Over the past few weeks I have read extensively in these topics and in material posted in other forums or on YouTube. None of those discussions appear to handle my particular failure in my attempts to get a successful install of PS6 in either Mint 22 or MX Linux 23. The results from these two distributions are essentially the same: Photoshop's 'Set-up.exe' completes with an error to the effect that some components could not be installed and the terminal dialog shows many messages of the form:
"0560:err:ole:apartment_add_dll couldn't load in-process dll L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msxml3.dll""

I also notice that although both msxml3.dll and msxml6.dll are installed in the System32 directory in my wineprefix, the installation process cannot load them. Similarly there are errors in running winetricks to install all the vcrun components from 2005, 2008 and 2010. A direct attempt to invoke wine to install VCRedist_x64.exe from the 2010 redistributable fails

I realise that this is far too general to allow any useful failure cause analysis, so could somebody be kind enough to specify what detailed information I should post here in order the allow people to provide specific advice.

[Armonius]

I imagine if I was dealing with your issue, I would try to use bottles to see if installing dependencies through that would lead to the same issue. But if I'm looking for information on what is causing the issues, I'd use the environment variable WINEDEBUG and find some channels that give me more information on the process like +loaddll , +DLL, +file, or so. But I don't have any experience with PS CS6. I had a portable version of C 2019 that works fairly well or me

[LateJunction]

Thanks for your helpful suggestions. The installation process under bottles (correctly installed and configured, as far as I can tell) lasts far, far shorter than that under Wine. At least the set-up under Wine installs everything without issue, right up to the last 'minute'. By comparison, the install in bottles fails immediately set-up.exe is invoked, with a message sating words to the effect of: "setup.exe could not be initialised, possibly because of a missing file. The recommendation is to contact Adobe for support for this error. This would be the last thing I would do - after installing Windows 11, that is.