[Wine] How to Install WINE on Slackware 12

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:24 AM, ShellyCat <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> OK, I had an error message when I ran "wineprefixcreate" (as a regular user). I did a search and found only 1 post, and tried to do what it said. I will cut there and paste here in just a sec.
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>  The new problem is, when I tried to run "sh winetricks gecko" I got this error:
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>  Executing cabextract /home/myuser/.winetrickscache/wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab
>  winetricks: line 234: cabextract: command not found
>  Note: command 'cabextract /home/myuser/.winetrickscache/wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab' returned status 127.  Aborting.
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>  So, I still wonder...will I not be able to view HTML in any applications I run in Wine? Why does it insist on Mozilla?
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Wine uses gecko to display html (in the same way windows uses IE). If
your application doesn't need it, you can safely ignore it. However,
if your app should be displaying HTML but doesn't, then install wine
gecko.