Sage 50 installation fails

[danw58]

Need to get Sage 50 student version for my Accounting course.
I'm completely new to WINE, but I believe I have followed the installation instructions for winehq-devel.
This is in Ubuntu 24.04 noble numbat on a Ryzen 7600 with 64 gigs of DDR5 and Radeon 7600 card.
$ wine --version
wine-9.19
Every time I try to install Sage 50, a point is reached when I get a screen popping up saying it has crashed and offers me to save a log, but just now I was looking for the files I saved and I can't find them; not sure in what folder to look.
Anyways, being a total newbie at this, I set up a prefix for Sage50 under .wine-prefixes; but now as I was looking for those log files I found Sage50 installed inside the .wine folder. I guess I know how to create a prefix but not how to set it as default.
Another problem may be the windows version, I have used winecfg to set it to 11, as well as executed winetricks win11, but to no avail, the Sage50 installer keeps complaining that my windows version is too old. I'm totally lost and can't even find where to find more info.
Thanks in advance.

[desessarts]

it would help if you added some more info

where is it possible to download the software?
is it this one?
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... n&iId=1098

what did you do

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export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine
wineboot -u
wine this_soft.exe

or the same, with

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export WINEARCH=win64

what messages did you get?