Unfortunately, that just changed the error-message 
username@laptop ~/.wine/drive_c/EVE/evelauncher $ sudo bash ./evelauncher.sh./evelauncher.sh: line 14: /home/username/.wine/drive_c/EVE/evelauncher/./evelauncher: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
It occurs to me that this is on a 32-bit laptop - is Eve 64-bit only ?