How to save some trouble w/.NET by winetricks

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Some may think that they ONLY need a certain version of .NET. And looking at results from the AppDB, this might seem correct.

WRONG!

After configuring and deleting more WINEPREFIX's than allowed by common sense, I finally stumbled across a solution which may help many others.

The first problem I noticed is that, after installing .NET 2.0 it is not possible to install .NET 3.5 (claims a conflict and exits). So I tried different approaches with clean PREFIX's until BWA-HA-HA!

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Simply use winetricks in a clean PREFIX to install .NET 4.5. This will install .NET 2.0, .NET 2.0 SP1, .NET 3.0 SP1, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, and .NET 4.5; along with MSXML3, which is a dependency for some of the .NET's. Added bonus: if you've ever installed any of these, the installer package should still be available somewhere on your system. (/home/***/.cache/winetricks is the first place to look. This will save download time.)

As to why anyone would think that they only need an older version of .NET to run a certain app, I'll leave that to them to figure out.

If this "solution" has been posted before, it's well past due to be posted again. I've seen far too many test results which still point users to install only certain versions of .NET.