Ubuntu – Program refuses to install in Wine, telling me that “run this installer as a normal user instead of run as admin”

You will need to use wine1.7 to be able to configure the Windows version to a newer release than XP, I think.

To do this, first you need to add the wine PPA, then refresh the sources list, and finally install the newer wine:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7-i386

Once installed, you will need to run winecfg and select Windows 7 or one of the other newer versions that is required, and you should be able to install your application. However, you may still encounter other issues with it, and may need to actually run it on Windows, either directly on hardware, or in a VM.

Manually install the latest version of Winetricks:

cd /usr/bin
sudo rm -f ./winetricks
sudo apt install wget
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks

Then run the winetricks command again.