Gecko installation broken?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue May 19 09:52:41 CDT 2009


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
> Am Montag, 18. Mai 2009 22:46:59 schrieb Lei Zhang:
>> It didn't think so either, so I even double checked. Upon further
>> investigation, it seems the problem is simply the gecko cab download
>> is failing. Either one of the Sourceforge servers is down/flaky, or
>> source.winehq.org is taking too long to do the redirect and wininet
>> doesn't handle that well.
> That might explain why the HL2 test ran successfully yesterday, but not the
> TF2 test(which does the same Gecko setup). Today both failed again. On the
> other hand, it seems that the download succeeds - the progress bar runs to
> the end, and the dialog box says "installing" for about a second.
>
>
>

You could always do a local install, and avoid the problem altogether
http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko.

-- 
-Austin



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