Ubuntu – Can’t download vcrun2008 winhttp wininet with winetricks

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I'm trying to play ROBLOX on Ubuntu, but for some reason this error message keeps on appearing:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-11-16 14:31:45 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Downloading http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie5/Update/1/WIN98/EN-US/3725.exe failed

Does anyone know what to do? I'm using Winetricks with this command:

winetricks -q vcrun2008 winhttp wininet

I don't know what to do.

Best Answer

This means Microsoft has deleted the file from their servers. Oh and they did that a long time ago ;)

If you look at the link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie5/Update/1/WIN98/EN-US/3725.exe you can see you are trying to get a windows 98 file named3725.exe for IE5 from their servers.

See http://www.playonlinux.com/en/issue-1142.html for a similar question. The mirror mentioned does not work.

Here http://am.net/lib/tools/Microsoft/ie/5/ is one. That site also holds all the other files that you might need.

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