Some winetricks packages have invalid links and cannot be downloaded

[Jeecis]

Hello,
I am working currently on a project that requires wmi and ie8 packages. However, the links to the windows executables seem to be invalid and throw these errors:
ie8

Executing w_do_call ie8
Executing load_ie8 
win10
Executing wine winecfg -v winxp
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warning: Running /usr/bin/wineserver -w. This will hang until all wine processes in prefix=/root/.wine32 terminate
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Executing w_do_call msls31
Executing load_msls31 
Executing cd /root/.cache/winetricks/msls31
Downloading https://web.archive.org/web/20160710055851if_/http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/NT45/EN-US/InstMsiW.exe to /root/.cache/winetricks/msls31
--2025-10-22 10:59:07--  https://web.archive.org/web/20160710055851if_/http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/NT45/EN-US/InstMsiW.exe
Resolving web.archive.org (web.archive.org)... 207.241.237.3
Connecting to web.archive.org (web.archive.org)|207.241.237.3|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
2025-10-22 10:59:08 ERROR 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable.

The same for wmi

58.30 Executing cd /home/user/.cache/winetricks/wmi
58.30 Downloading https://web.archive.org/web/2000/https://web.archive.org/web/20051221074940/https://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/wmi9x/1.5/W9X/EN-US/wmi9x.exe to /home/user/.cache/winetricks/wmi
connected.
503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
59.03 2025-10-22 11:34:42 ERROR 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable.
59.03 

This of course isn't a winetricks error per say but it blocks the package of being installed. Has this previously ever happened, and what would be the suggested solution to this?

[zartor]

It seems you can add riched30 package to the list

Using winetricks 20240105 - sha256sum: 17da748ce874adb2ee9fed79d2550c0c58e57d5969cc779a8779301350625c55 with wine-9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3) and WINEARCH=win32
Executing w_do_call riched30
Executing load_riched30
Executing cd /root/.cache/winetricks/riched30
Downloading https://web.archive.org/web/20060720160141/https://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe to /root/.cache/winetricks/riched30
--2025-10-22 20:05:03--  https://web.archive.org/web/20060720160141/https://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe
Resolving web.archive.org (web.archive.org)... 207.241.237.3
Connecting to web.archive.org (web.archive.org)|207.241.237.3|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
2025-10-22 20:05:03 ERROR 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable.

Could it be that web archive are having issues? According to downdetector, there are a few reports over the last 24hours

[Jeecis]

Yea, the web archive doesn't work for some these packages anymore, and idk if it will. However, I found a workaround in case you need a quick fix. But it does require that you have a build that already contains your winetricks installed package.

1. Locate your package using find / -iname 'InstMsiA.exe' 2>/dev/null
   • You should see the output path for it
2. Copy the winetricks package from your existing app/container
3. Put it in your apps/containers respective .cache folder, it might require to make a folder as well, which in you case might look like:

mkdir -p "/root/.cache/winetricks/riched30"
cp "path/to/your/InstMsiA.exe" "/root/.cache/winetricks/riched30"

Not sure if this will be fixed any time soon, but I hope so.

[u362eboi]

Yea, the web archive doesn't work for some these packages anymore, and idk if it will. However, I found a workaround in case you need a quick fix. But it does require that you have a build that already contains your winetricks installed package.

1. Locate your package using `find / -iname 'InstMsiA.exe' 2>/dev/null`
   
   * You should see the output path for it

2. Copy the winetricks package from your existing app/container

3. Put it in your apps/containers respective .cache folder, it might require to make a folder as well, which in you case might look like:

mkdir -p "/root/.cache/winetricks/riched30"
cp "path/to/your/InstMsiA.exe" "/root/.cache/winetricks/riched30"

Not sure if this will be fixed any time soon, but I hope so.

It's great that our solutions are align. I came up with the same solution to find the InstMsiA.exe file and I published the package in my package manager since my goal is to build the image in a pipeline.

[char-papadopoulos]

I am having the same issue but with gdiplus for a few days nice, very frustrating since I don't have another build with the packages I need.