how to troubleshoot application beyond the listed steps on the user guide and FAQ

[eldritchcookie]

i want to read and fill some xfa forms and the other programs i tried didn't work so i am trying to use adobe reader to do so.
however i was unable to install it.

All versions i tried start installing then say that the installation process was interrupted and then don't install the program. there are some errors reported but none seem actionable or relevant to my problem.

i tried both the windows 7 adobe reader with both 32 and 64 bit and the windows 10 adobe reader with 64 bit wine all on clean prefixes, and on wine 7.0 and wine 7.20, i tried installing all dlls on winetricks that seemed even remotely relevant to my problem but nothing worked.

i really believe this is a regression so how can i gather the necessary information for a bug report and what would it entail?
i assume my distro and my configuration would be important.
my distro nixos has all configuration in a single text file if i created a minimal configuration to reproduce it would that be helpful? even assuming that it would be necessary to install nix to use it?

[jkfloris]

To see what goes wrong, run the installation from the command line. Sometimes distributions override Wine's default debug level. If this is the case, you can set the debug level with:

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WINEDEBUG=fixme+all wine program.exe

Running the Adobe Reader installer will display the following output:

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0380:fixme:mspatcha:read_header special processing of 32-bit executables not implemented.
0380:err:msi:ACTION_PatchFiles Failed to apply patch to file: L"ccme_base_non_fips.dll"
0380:err:msi:execute_script Execution of script 0 halted; action L"PatchFiles" returned 1603
0380:err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallFinalize" returned 1603

The error is in mspatcha.

The solution is to use winetricks to install mspatcha

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winetricks mspatcha