I tried with just upgrading to wine 1.3.8 but I still got the same error: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. So I just nixed my .wine directory, installed msi2, tried to install .net2 and .net3 but I'm not clear whether they were completely successful (in particular .net3 got itself into a loop I had to ^C out of...). This seemed to work and Evernote is working again! Performance still doesn't seem to great, but hey... Note I am running: - 2.6.35-23-generic kernel - Ubuntu 10.10