On my fully-updated (fully operational battle station), er, centos box I seem to be able to use the Centos-released version of wine to run the software installers for quite a few apps. However, at no time during the installer do I actually see any text in any of the dialogs that appear. This makes it a little hard to choose options :)
I had (have) the same problem but got no answers/help on this list :-(
And I have no solution (beside using cross over from codeweaver).
Sorry Timothy