Getting things done with wine on linux is cool, but you have to seperate working directories if you want to be able to cleanly remove or install another application side by side. Here i have a few tips for you to make yout first steps into that. WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" WINEARCH='win32' wine 'wineboot' WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" WINEARCH='win32' winetricks vcredist2005

First of all you have to add your user to the dialout group which is used in ubuntu for all serial or usb devices that can perform some kind of /dialouty/ activity. For the user to have access to that group it is better to logout and login again to get the GUI to receive the new Groups. In the next step you have to browse to your wineprefix directory that in my case resides in $HOME/.