Greetings; I have removed and reinstalled/upgraded Wine from both the Debian site and the Wine site and I still get this message when I try to run some programs. It offers to download and install Gecko, but that process never succeeds. Any help for this? Where do I go next? Many thanks! Dennis
On Saturday August 25 2007 16:24, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:> Greetings; > > I have removed and reinstalled/upgraded Wine from both the Debian site > and the Wine > site and I still get this message when I try to run some programs. > > It offers to download and install Gecko, but that process never succeeds. > > Any help for this? > > Where do I go next? > > Many thanks! > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-usersYou can use winetricks: http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks Download it and install it like this: sudo ln ./winetricks /usr/local/bin/ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks Now download and install gecko: winetricks gecko Please note that using winetricks you can install gecko engine to all your WINEPREFIXes without downloading it again (you need download it once) - this is very useful if you have a lot of WINEPREFIXes.
L. Rahyen wrote the following on 08/25/2007 12:01 PM:> On Saturday August 25 2007 16:24, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > >> Greetings; >> >> I have removed and reinstalled/upgraded Wine from both the Debian site >> and the Wine >> site and I still get this message when I try to run some programs. >> >> It offers to download and install Gecko, but that process never succeeds. >> >> Any help for this? >> >> Where do I go next? >> >> Many thanks! >> Dennis >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wine-users mailing list >> wine-users@winehq.org >> http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >> > > You can use winetricks: > > http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks > > Download it and install it like this: > > sudo ln ./winetricks /usr/local/bin/ > sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks > > Now download and install gecko: > > winetricks gecko > > Please note that using winetricks you can install gecko engine to all your > WINEPREFIXes without downloading it again (you need download it once) - this > is very useful if you have a lot of WINEPREFIXes. > >OK! That worked, but now I have run into other problems. Oh well, onwards and upwards! Thanks!!