[Wine] what is winetricks?

[Vincent Povirk]

Make sure you have cabextract installed, and run
 ./winetricks.sh gecko

I believe winetricks caches gecko so that it only needs to be
downloaded once (but you will need to install it with winetricks every
time you delete ~/.wine).

On Jan 5, 2008 10:08 PM, Douglas A. Whitfield <whitdoug at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> Awesome, that was helpful...except that now I get
>
> Usage: ./winetricks.sh [options] package [package] ...
> This script can help you prepare your system for Windows applications
> that mistakenly assume all users' systems have all the needed
> redistributable runtime libraries or fonts.
> Some options require the Linux 'cabextract' program.
>
> Options:
>  -q         quiet.  You must have already agreed to the EULAs.
>  -v         Verbose
> Packages:
>  art2kmin   Access 2000 runtime.  License required!
>  cc580      Install native common controls 5.80, override comctl32
>  corefonts  Install MS Times, Arial fonts
>  dcom98     Install native DCOM, override the Wine implementation
>  gdiplus    Install gdiplus.dll from pp viewer (got a better idea?)
>  gecko      Install the HTML rendering Engine (Mozilla)
>  jet40      Install Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8
>  liberation Install Red Hat's Liberation fonts (Sans, Serif, Mono)
>  mdac27     MDAC 2.7: Microsoft ODBC drivers, etc.
>  mdac28     MDAC 2.8.
>  mfc40
>  mono11     mono 1.1.13-gtksharp-2.8.2 (deprecated, use 1.2)
>  mono12     mono mono-1.2.5.2-gtksharp-2.10.2
>  msi2       Microsoft Installer 2.0
>  msxml3     (Note: install a bit squidgy; see
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7849)
>  msxml4     (Note: installing this requires fake c: to be named harddrive1!)
>  pdh        Install pdh.dll (Performance Data Helper)
>  tahoma     Install MS Tahoma font (not part of corefonts)
>  vbvm50     Visual Basic 5 runtime
>  vbrun60    Visual Basic 6 runtime
>  vcrun6     vc6redist from VS6sp4, including mfc42
>  vcrun2005  Visual C++ 2005 redistributable libraries
>  wsh51      Windows Scripting Host 5.1
>  wsh56      Windows Scripting Host 5.6 (install vcrun6 first)
>  wsh56js    Windows scripting 5.6, jscript only, no cscript
>  wsh56vb    Windows scripting 5.6, vbscript only, no cscript
> Pseudopackages:
>  fakeie6      Set registry to claim IE6sp1 is installed
>  native_mdac  Override odbc32 and odbccp32
>  winver=win98 Set windows version to win98
>  winver=winxp Set windows version to winxp
>  winver=      Set windows version to default (win2k)
>  volnum      Rename drive_c to harddiskvolume0 (needed by some installers)
>
> I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy.  I know what to do with the -q and the -v, but
> I don't understand what all this other stuff is.  Thanks!
>
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2008 9:19 PM, Jérôme Gardou <jgardou at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > Le Sunday 06 January 2008 02:54:11 James McKenzie, vous avez écrit:
> >
> > > Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> > > > I tried running the winetricks bash script, but it always makes my
> > > > terminal disappear.  What's going on?
> > >
> > > Which Operating System are you using?  I have no problems running the
> > > most recent winetricks on Mac OS X 10.4.11 in a terminal window.  I use
> > > ./ to run it and it always returns to the command line.
> > >
> > > James McKenzie
> > >
> > >
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> > Yes the better thing to do would be :
> > open a terminal
> > cd /where/you/downloaded/the/script
> > chmod +x winetricks
> > ./winetricks
> >
> >
> >
> >
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