wine users - May 2010 - Avoid the Gecko dialogue

Can I use a wine command line argument (or anything other) to skip the
`installing Gecko' dialogue?

I find it only annoying as I install Gecko via winetricks when needed and I
usually have a wine prefix for each windows program I use.

Copy the cab to /usr/share/wine/gecko/

no... its highly annoying... a bad idea... yet they don't want to change it.
They have "reasons" which are basically just a "quick fix"
instead of doing things properly.

you can disable mshtml via command line, or in the registry (winecfg) to stop it
from happening.

Wow, while I find this feature annoying I would never appear angry or ungrateful
with the wine team...

About your solution, it works great! Thanks a lot.

To anyone interested, if you want to update a wine prefix without seeing the
Gecko installing dialogue you can use:

Assuming you correctly set WINEPREFIX...

Code:

$ WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mshtml=" wineboot -u



Once done, you can alter the registry to make the dll overriding setting
permanent.

If you actually want Gecko because you need html rendering you can simply use:

Code:

$ WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mshtml=" wineboot -u
$ winetricks -q gecko