[Wine] Need Manual install for Gecko

Dennis G. Wicks dgw at more-good-stuff.com
Fri Jun 15 00:04:02 CDT 2007


Vincent, et al,

It looks like winetricks did its job without difficulty,
but the Wine Gecko Installer still tries to run.

Is there some other thing I need to do?

Many TIA!
Dennis

Vincent Povirk wrote:
> Winetricks can install gecko "manually": 
> http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
>
> Download that and run: sh winetricks gecko
>
> If necessary, you can manually download wine_gecko.cab from
> http://source.winehq.org/winegecko.php and put that in
> ~/.wine/winetrickscache before running it.
>
> On 6/14/07, Dennis G. Wicks <dgw at more-good-stuff.com> wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> I am running Debian Etch and I have a little problem with wine.
>>
>> I installed wine from the wine repository for Debian. Also purged it
>> and reinstalled it.
>>
>> I get a message concerning downloading and installing Gecko when
>> I try to run one particular program. That download and install
>> procedure never works. I suspect it is a firewall or proxy problem,
>> although I never get any messages. It appears to just time out.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a site where I can use aptitude or manually download
>> the Gecko module so I can get it installed and use this program?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Dennis
>>
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