Today 25 March 2012, I succeeded installing TMG v7.04 in a fresh installation of wine 1.4.0 in Mint12KDE. This is based on Ubuntu 11.10, so recent Ubunutus should be fine. I used Kernel 3.0.0-15-generic-pae KDE version 4.7.4, but Xfce & LDME work too. All fonts displayed as I would have expected.
I would like to hear others experiences with this version of wine because this seems to vary.
I followed the same instructions as succeeded with wine v 1.2.2 which are detailed below. Note that TMG had not been previously installed. It is my experience that if an installation of TMG exists, say from a preexisting home directory, then the problem with fonts not displaying which is common does not occur.

1. Install wine 1.4.0. 
  I used the instructions for Ubuntu PPA given here: http://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu to add the ppa to repository. You can choose the version to install in Synaptic, or downgrade this if a later version than 1.4.0 does not work for you.
  Make sure that winetricks is installed.
2. Configure wine
  Use winetricks to install DLL: gdiplus & vb6run. You should find this in main menu > Wine > Winetricks.
  Use winetricks to Change Setting of:  native_oleaut32. You can also use wineconfig, if you prefer. 
3. Install TMG
  Copy tmg704uksetup.exe (or the version without uk in it for most people) to ~/.wine/drive_c/
  R click on the tmg704uksetup.exe and use Wine Installer to install. (Probably you can do this from the download directory.)
4. Initial run of TMG
  In a terminal:
    cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/The Master Genealogist v7
  wine tmg7.exe (Then run the Sample TMG database)
  (There should be no errors (err) here only lots of fixme. There were a few err: related to ole, but they did not seem to matter.
   The above appears to run perfectly. You may need to change where your data is kept by TMG.
   If you see something like 'err:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L"oleacc.dll" failed with error 0' then you need to set native_oleaut32 as described in 2 above.


Once you check tmg running in a terminal you can do this from the Wine menu. I prefer to start it from a terminal for the initial run so that I can see error messages.

Footnote re TMG v8.2. I tried this again. The installer fails as soon as it asks for which version to install. The public beta version which used another installer installed OK.

Download the TMG version of the installer you are interested in:

TMG Version	Download URL
TMG 5.15 USA Version	http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg5setup.exe
TMG 5.15 UK Version	http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg5uksetup.exe
TMG 6.12 USA Version	http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg6setup.exe
TMG 6.12 UK Version	http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg6uksetup.exe
TMG 7.04 USA Version	http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg7setup.exe
TMG 7.04 UK Version	http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg7uksetup.exe

Installation:

wine tmg7setup.exe

After installation and before running program for the first time

With Wine set to "Windows XP" use the script Winetricks to install the following:

• vb6run
• gdiplus
• msxml6  *  
• wsh56  *

Using the following command:

sh winetricks vb6run gdiplus

Then using winetricks choose: native_oleaut32

(Optional but recommended)If you have Windows XP Licence.  Copy the following font to your wine font directory ( c:\windows\Fonts\ )

• wingding.ttf
  

* Visual Chartform (Graphical Charts) just works in wine 1.2 or greater.
* Text Reports and Preview just works in wine 1.2 or greater

For Help to Work

To use help in TMG 7.04 (+Visual Chartform) or greater install the Linux program xCHM and then using xCHM navigate to the following directory in your wine install:

C:\Program Files\The Master Genealogist\TMG.chm

C:\Program Files\The Master Genealogist\Vcf2.chm

Note:Help file for TMG 5.15 & TMG 6.12.00 work with no additional programs needed (As they use the .hlp format for the help files)

Use the icon created on your desktop "The Master Genealogist"

Or run the following command from a Terminal

wine "C:\Program Files\The Master Genealogist\tmg7.exe"

Note: Before running any reports/charts in TMG for the first time  go into TMG's File > "Printer Setup" and change the Printer to *selected and choose your printer eg:in my case "HP Laserjet PS" as well as choosing the correct paper size and tray. Other wise you will see the following error:

"no printer is installed so the document could not be constructed."

• Use the latest version of Wine. Type 'wine --version' if you are unsure.

TMG704 works in all the above. 

In addition SecondSite3 can be installed as below in wine running TMG704 & SecondSite2 OK:

*********** to set up SS3101.exe in wine 1.1.33BETA or Stable 1.0.1

Download test version http://ss.johncardinal.com/downloads.htm
Before running ss3101.exe, enter wine config and for this application set rpcrt4.dd to be "buildin then native". It may already be set like this so this step may be optional
Then run SS3 with a command like:
    wine ~/".wine/drive_c/Program Files/Second Site 3/2ndsite3.exe"
    or one generated by wine and placed on the desktop which looked like:
    env WINEPREFIX="/home/ian/.wine" wine "C:\PROG~FBU\SECO~LSM\2ndsite3.exe"
I found that a few times wind gave an error starting "wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to..." but this cleared after restarting wine or maybe after reinstalling SS3.

When I run it I first get the registration screen and
I say continue unregistered. Then this error comes up: Run time error
339: Component vbalTreeView6.ocx or one of its dependencies is not
correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid.

I downloaded a zip of the vbalTreeView6.ocx file from
http://realityripple.com/software/deps/ Unzip this and instructions
about where to put it in different windows versions are in ReadMe.txt
file. I am emulating WinXP so I copied it to  ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

After that SS3 worked perfectly.

***** As of mid June 2010 Problem with SecondSite v3: *********************

With wine 1.2 (and I think 1.1 too) SS3 will install but on running produces this error:

Second Site 3 Version 3.2 Build 02
> Error 50003 from vbalTreeViewLib6 [LOC=4]
> Unexpected error

So far I have not been able to resolve this and John Cardinal the author of SecondSite is mystified as well.  Can anyone help with this?  SS3 runs OK in Crossover v9.1.0.
SecondSite v2 runs perfectly as described above and at the moment I would recommend using that. Both v2 & 3 of SecondSite can coexist in the same installation of wine without problems, as far as I have found.

For TMG7+ the Font for "Detail View" ­is controlled by "app.ini"

Changing the font listed in "app.ini" allows you to use tmg without using winetricks allfonts and reduces your need for windows

Once tmg is run and depending on if you have used the data_paths.txt file. The app.ini you need to edit is located in the user program data folder.Under wine this is located:

C:\windows\profiles\username\Application Data\The Master Genealogist v7\app.ini

Backup and then open the  "app.ini" and find the following section:

[Fonts]
ListFontName=Tahoma

You can change the listed font "Tahoma" to one of the fonts installed on your linux system (this also changes you "List Font")

Please note: The copy of app.ini in the program folder is not used by the program.

For additional information see TMG's>Data File Storage topic in help.

TMG 7.04 has resolved the backup/restore problem.

You should update to the latest version using the setup programs at:http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg7uksetup.exe  or http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg7setup.exe Then reenter your serial number to get rid of 30-day trial messages.

The Update facility in TMG when used appears to break wine. So using the above method is safer.

This note below only refers to versions of TMG prior to 7.04

NOTE WELL: As yet, the Backup project does not function correctly under either Wine 1.1.7 or Crossover 7.02, TMG703 & Ubuntu 804 Hardy . When a Backup is performed all appears to go correctly and the .sqz file is created. Restore works correctly but I find that I get the message "Nothing to Restore". The Backup has backup all configurations but ignored the Project files. I see no warning to this effect. I wonder if there is a dll relating to zip that has to be altered.
There is a workaround. All the Project files are in the directory UserData=C:\TMG7\UserData stated in Data_paths.txt.

Solution 1: just back these up periodically.

Solution 2: Change C:\TMG7\UserData to in, say, the home directory as UserData=z:/home/ian/TMG7Backups, or wherever seems best for you.

This problem exists when TMG7 is installed for All User, or just for a single user, ian. The problem does not exist when using WinXP in Win4Lin or VirtualBox with the UserData kept on the home directory so it is not a program error and does not seem to be related to permissions.

TMG6 will back up a TMG7 project perfectly with all the project appearing as they should be. So there is something about TMG7 which is different which is causing this problem.
A thread on the whollygenes forum asking for help with this issue has been opened at:
http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index.php?showtopic=10838. The latest information about this is likely to appear there.

Every attempt to Backup any project files in TMG7 using Files>Backup with any configuration of project & backup paths results in a successful backup according to TMG. However. always the important 45 or so project files are missing. See below for a list of the files that should be there and what is missing.

(This can be checked by opening the TMG7 .sqz backup file in Linux with the archiver and going down the archived directory tree to Projects/Sample. The important 45 or so files are missing.
It just seems that the project files are not being found for some reason.)

I have tried to mapping both the project source and destination files to the same drive letter "P:", with still the same result. Every time on Backup the project files are missing. I have tried everything I can think of. It appears to write all the files OK so I wonder if TMG cannot access the project files for some reason. Permissions seems unlikely as all the files in the project folder have the same permissions. It seems more likely to be a problem in VFPro.  It is strange that this problem did not occur in TMG6. What is different in this part of  TMG7, I wonder?

Project files copied into Project/Backup.sqz when using Windows Emulator WinXP
all .acc & .flp files
SAMPLE_UK_A.CDX
sample_uk_a.dbf
sample_uk_a.fpt
SAMPLE_UK_B.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_B.DBF
SAMPLE_UK_C.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_C.DBF
SAMPLE_UK_$.CDX
Sample_UK_c.FPT
SAMPLE_UK_$.DBF
SAMPLE_UK_D.CDX
Sample_UK_d.dbf
Sample_UK_d.FPT
SAMPLE_UK_DNA.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_dna.dbf
SAMPLE_UK_dna.FPT
SAMPLE_UK_E.CDX
sample_uk_e.dbf
sample_uk_e.fpt
SAMPLE_UK_F.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_F.DBF
Sample_UK_f.FPT
SAMPLE_UK_G.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_G.DBF
Sample_UK_g.FPT
SAMPLE_UK_i.CDX
sample_uk_i.dbf
sample_uk_i.fpt
SAMPLE_UK_K.CDX
Sample_UK_k.dbf
SAMPLE_UK_L.CDX
sample_uk_l.dbf
sample_uk_l.fpt
SAMPLE_UK_M.CDX
sample_uk_m.dbf
sample_uk_m.fpt
SAMPLE_UK_N.CDX
sample_uk_n.dbf
SAMPLE_UK_ND.CDX
Sample_UK_nd.dbf
Sample_UK_nd.FPT
sample_uk_n.fpt
SAMPLE_UK_NPT.CDX
Sample_UK_npt.dbf
SAMPLE_UK_NPV.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_NPV.DBF
SAMPLE_UK_O.CDX
sample_uk_o.dbf
SAMPLE_UK_P.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_P.DBF
SAMPLE_UK_PD.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_PD.DBF
Sample_UK_pd.FPT
Sample_UK_p.FPT
SAMPLE_UK__.PJC
SAMPLE_UK_PPT.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_PPT.DBF
SAMPLE_UK_PPV.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_PPV.DBF
SAMPLE_UK_R.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_R.DBF
Sample_UK_r.FPT
SAMPLE_UK_S.CDX
sample_uk_s.dbf
sample_uk_s.fpt
SAMPLE_UK_ST.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_ST.DBF
Sample_UK_st.FPT
SAMPLE_UK_T.CDX
sample_uk_t.dbf
sample_uk_t.fpt
SAMPLE_UK_U.CDX
Sample_UK_u.dbf
SAMPLE_UK_W.CDX
SAMPLE_UK_W.DBF
SAMPLE_UK_XD.CDX
Sample_UK_xd.dbf

Files copied into Project/Backup.sqz in wine & crossover
All .acc & .flp files
SAMPLE_UK_DNA.DBF, 
SAMPLE_UK_DNA.FPT,
SAMPLE_UK_NPT.DBF,
SAMPLE_UK_NPV.DBF,
SAMPLE_UK_PPT.DBF,
SAMPLE_UK_PPV.DBF
About 45 project files are missing.    

Can anyone think of a reason for this?

I have tried experimenting with altering settings for FoxFix5.dll to no avail.

8 Nov 2008
The current situation which has been worked out with the willing help of Jim Byram of Wholly Genes, seems to be:
Something has changed in Visual Fox Pro from version 7 (used in TMG6) to version 9 (used in TMG7). Under wine v1.1.7 and crossover office v 7.1, backup will not include project files. Also the backup.log which is referred to is not produced either. At the moment there is no solution to this because, I understand, the TMG script to run the backup is virtually identical in the two versions of TMG. The DynaZip dlls which are used in TMG7 and TMG6 to produce the .sqz backup file have not changed. TMG6 can be used to backup a TMG7 project and that appears to work OK. I find that this is the easiest way to backup TMG7 projects, even if it is a bit of a pain. However, check that this works for you before relying on it.
See:
http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index.php?showtopic=10838&st=0#entry41184

TMG 7.04 has resolved the backup/restore problem.

* TMG7 needs more control of fonts (say from tmg:ini) eg:instead of relying on windows xp's arial & tahoma & wingdings etc fonts rely on the one shipped with tmg. (so we do not have to have a win xp licence to use our purchased program.)

Views & Windows & Tools Menu in TMG7

The following are under the "Windows" menu (note:may not be listed in order)

<*> = "file>preferences>Program Options>List" font=tahoma & size=8

{#} = "file>preferences>Program Options>Other" font size only & no selection of font type (which looks to be Tahoma)

---------

    |- Person (tab)(default) <*>
    |- Family (tab) {#}

    |- Tree (tab) {#}
---------
+ Children (View) <*>
---------
+ Siblings (View)<*>
---------
+ Associates (View) <*>
---------
+ Flags (View) <*>
---------
+ Project Explorer (interactive filter) ["file>preferences>Program Options>Project Explorer"  font=tahoma & size=8 ]
---------
+ Focus Groups (interactive filter) [not effected by "file>preferences>Program Options>List"]

The following are under the "Tools" menu (note:may not be listed in order)

Tools (Menu)
 * Master Source List (?) <*>
 * Master Repository List (?) <*>
 * Master Place List (?) <*>
 * Master Event List (?) <*>
 * Master Tag Type List (?) <*>
 * Master Style List [not effected by "file>preferences>Program Options>List"]
 * Source Types (?) <*>
 * Source Elements (?) <*>
 * Research Log (?)[not effected by "file>preferences>Program Options>List"]
 * Exhibit (multi-media) Log [not effected by "file>preferences>Program Options>List"]
 * DNA Log (?) <*>
 * State/province abbreviations [not effected by "file>preferences>Program Options>List"]
 * Timeline Manager (?) <*>
 * Check for Duplicate People (?) <*>
----------
Add (Menu)
 * Add Person (?) <*>
----------
View (Menu)
 * Bookmark Manager (?) <*>
----------
Report (menu)
 * Book Manager (?) <*>
----------
File (menu)
 * Data Set Manager (?) <*>
 * Flag Manager (?) <*>
 * Accent (Definitions) <*>

• see wine appdb: Wise Installation System v9.02

• Alinetmg.ttf
• Foxfont.fon
• helvsb75.TTF
• Helvss75.ttf
  

• ARIAL.TTF
• WINGDING.TTF
• TAHOMA.TTF
  

Below is a summary of how I installed TMG7 in a separate wine v1.1.15 directory (~/.wineTMG7Test1) in Ubuntu Hardy 804 on Acer Travelmate 3004 & a generic PC. This is based on method here by Nathan N. given on this site.
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This shows how to install TMG7.04 in a separate wine-1.0 directory called .wineTMG7Test1. This will work for normal wine installation if "env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1" is removed. It was installed in an Acer Travelmate 3004 & a generic PC in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. Based on method here by Nathan N. However note some important modifications.
NB the changes that I have made from previous versions with respect to the Libraries and the removal of association of dll files from Default to tmg7.exe" This is important if you want to run other programs in the same wine installation directory.

  $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 winecfg    (Using wineprefixcreate is now deprectated and winecfg does the same thing.)

  Get winetricks from http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks or use:
  $wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

  $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 sh winetricks gecko ***
  $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 sh winetricks dcom98
  $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 sh winetricks fakeeie6
  $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 sh winetricks gdiplus (important to do this)
  $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 sh winetricks allfonts  ***
         (the lines marked *** are not needed in wine after version 1.1.12 - I think.)
$env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 sh winetricks msxml6 wsh56  (Required for Second Site & TMG Utility. See installation note by Nathan N above.)

  (Copy winding.ttf arial.ttf from WinXP)
  (On one of my PCs winetricks refuses to create the fonts, although it indicates no errors, so I had to copy these from a Win installation.)


   $cd /home/ian/.wineTMG7Test1/drive_c
   copy tmg7uksetup.exe to this directory

   $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 winecfg
   Set Default to be WinXP
   Set tmg7uksetup.exe to run as Win98

   Install TMG7
   $cd ~/.wineTMG7Test1/drive_c
   $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 wine tmg7uksetup.exe

   Select under Applications tab "tmg7.exe" then go to Libraries tab & set ole32.dll, oleut32.dll, rpcrt4.dll to be (native then build in).
   (It may be necessary to do this for Vcf2.exe and rrw/rrwrun.exe as well but it seems to be OK without this. The list of other .exe files which might be affected is viewer/tmgss.exe, /rrw/pdfinstall.exe, WiseUpdt.exe.)

NB Be careful here, if you select under the Libraries tab "Default" then some progs which run in this WINEPREFIX may stop working. This is known to be the case with these: set them back to builtin for Dreamweaver, Fireworks perhaps, Breeze Downloader, Photshop7 perhaps.

   $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 wine tmg7uksetup.exe

   Create file:   NB See note below about UserData path & Backup problem.
   /home/ian/.wineTMG7Test1/drive_c/Program Files/The Master Genealogist v7/Data_paths.txt to contain: (replace ian with your linux login name)
       [ian]  
    SharedProgramData=C:\TMG7\SharedProgramData
    UserProgramData=C:\TMG7\UserProgramData
    UserData=C:\TMG7\UserData

   $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 winecfg
       Go to C:\Program Files\The Master Genealogist v7\Vcf.exe
           Set Vcf.exe to run as Win98
       Go to C:\Program Files\The Master Genealogist v7\rrw\rrwrun.exe
           Set rrwrun.exe to run as Win3.1

   To run TMG7
   $cd     "/home/ian/.wineTMG7Test1/drive_c/Program Files/The Master Genealogist v7/"
   $env WINEPREFIX=~/.wineTMG7Test1 wine tmg7.exe

  To view TMG and other .chm help files install xchm (or gnchm if you prefer).
  Then $cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/The Master Genealogist v7  click on TMG.chm or Vcf.exe for Visual Chart Form and the help will appear.

**** The backup/restore problem has been corrected in tmg v7.04. Obtain these from:

http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg7setup.exe
http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg7uksetup.exe    for UK version

Do not attempt to use the tmg update facility it appears to break the installation. Use the setup program above. The 30 day trial is removed by entering your serial number and so on.

********** NB Backup problem before tmg v7.04 ***********************************
NOTE WELL: As yet, the Backup project does not function correctly under either Wine or Crossover. When a Backup is performed all appears to go correctly and the .sqz file is created. Restore works correctly but I find that I get the message "Nothing to Restore". The Backup has backup all configurations but ignored the Project files. I see no warning to this effect. I wonder if there is a dll relating to zip that has to be altered.
There is a workaround. All the Project files are in the directory UserData=C:\TMG7\UserData stated in Data_paths.txt.

Solution 1: just back these up periodically.

Solution 2: Change C:\TMG7\UserData to in, say, the home directory as UserData=z:/home/ian/TMG7Backups, or wherever seems best for you.

This problem exists when TMG7 is insalled for All User, or just for a single user, ian. The problem does not exist when using WinXP in Win4Lin with the UserData kept on the home directory so it is not a program error and does not seem to be related to permissions.
*****************************************************************

I have not found a way to uninstall  TMG7 from wine or in Crossover (by setting UNWISE.EXE to Win98, for example). It may be wise to install TMG7 in its own WINEPREFIX, as above, to avoid a broken wine installation after a failed uninstall.

Note: I have not succeeded in getting SecondSite version 2 or TMGUtility both by John Cardinal to run in wine-1.0 or any earlier version.  I gave got it them to install in Crossover v7.0. SS3 will install & run in Crossover v9.1.0 but fails to run in wine v1.2. (see additional notes above).  I have worked out how to install TMG7 in Crossover when that different components of it have to be run as different version of Windows. See the Crossover DB: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?forum=1;app_id=874;mhl=28168;msg=28168#msg28168.  

[username]

SharedProgramData=C:\TMG7\SharedProgramData

UserProgramData=C:\TMG7\UserProgramData

UserData=C:\TMG7\UserData

Copy "Data_paths.txt" to "C:\Program Files\The Master Genealogist v7" or the path you installed TMG.