Civ4 current version could not be determined

[calcipher]

I am attempting to install Civlization 4 under Wine in Ubuntu 9.10x64. Now, about a week ago, I started installing Civ and had no problems but, for various reasons, had to uninstall it, but today I decided to try again. When I run the setup.exe file the install shield fires up and I get an error message "The current version of the application could not be determined" after which the install aborts.
Now, I figured my problem was due to having once installed Civ, so I deleted my .wine folder. Trying the install again gets the same error. I decided to purge my current wine install and reinstall wine - same problem. Next, I removed the Wine for Ubuntu team ppa, purged wine (install says 1.2, but wine --version reports 1.1.something), installed the 9.10 standard version... Still no luck. Finally, I purged wine again, readded the ppa, installed wine 1.2 (again, claims to be 1.2 but reports 1.1), and tried the install again. Failure, same error.
I think the problem has to do with installshiled, but I can't figure out why things won't work. Any ideas?

[calcipher]

Just an update, the version being reported is 1.1.41

[hellork]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22066

This is fixed, but apparently wine 1.1.41 is not new enough. The patch is in the bug report, or use git. Or wait for the next version.

[calcipher]

Ah, I saw that bug report but, stupid me, I didn't connect wine1.2 as 1.1.41... Now to figure out how to apply that patch.