[gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko

[gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko

[Nikos Chantziaras]

When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog 
appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might 
not work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but 
mentions that it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in this case, 
would offer it and install it from there.

I can't find any such package in portage though.  "eix gecko" only finds 
dev-dotnet/gecko-sharp and www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko

[Ajai Khattri]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog 
> appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might not 
> work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but mentions that 
> it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in this case, would offer it and 
> install it from there.
>
> I can't find any such package in portage though.  "eix gecko" only finds 
> dev-dotnet/gecko-sharp and www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.

Gecko is part of Firefox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine)


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[gentoo-user] Re: Wine complains about Gecko

[walt]

On 09/06/2010 07:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might not work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but mentions that it would be better if the
> distro, Gentoo in this case, would offer it and install it from there.

I believe the wine way to install gecko is by using winetricks:

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko

[Nils Larsson]

On Tuesday 07 September 2010 04:32:11 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog
> appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might
> not work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but
> mentions that it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in this case,
> would offer it and install it from there.
> 
> I can't find any such package in portage though.  "eix gecko" only finds
> dev-dotnet/gecko-sharp and www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.

You should enable the "gecko" USE flag on app-emulation/wine.

[gentoo-user] Re: Wine complains about Gecko

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/07/2010 04:32 PM, Nils Larsson wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 September 2010 04:32:11 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog
>> appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might
>> not work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but
>> mentions that it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in this case,
>> would offer it and install it from there.
>>
>> I can't find any such package in portage though.  "eix gecko" only finds
>> dev-dotnet/gecko-sharp and www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.
>
> You should enable the "gecko" USE flag on app-emulation/wine.

It is enabled.  It always was.

[gentoo-user] Re: Wine complains about Gecko

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/07/2010 06:48 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error
>> dialog appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the
>> program might not work (which it doesn't). It has an "install" button
>> there, but mentions that it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in
>> this case, would offer it and install it from there.
>>
>> I can't find any such package in portage though. "eix gecko" only
>> finds dev-dotnet/gecko-sharp and www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.
>
> Gecko is part of Firefox.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine)

Firefox is my main browser, so it's always installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog
> appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might not
> work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but mentions
> that it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in this case, would offer it
> and install it from there.

I have it on my system as part of wine. I can run "wine iexplore" and
I get the WINE Internet Explorer and it can successfully load web
pages.

$ equery b /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab
 * Searching for /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab ...
app-emulation/wine-1.3.1 (/usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab)

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
>> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog
>> appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might not
>> work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but mentions
>> that it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in this case, would offer it
>> and install it from there.
>
> I have it on my system as part of wine. I can run "wine iexplore" and
> I get the WINE Internet Explorer and it can successfully load web
> pages.
>
> $ equery b /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab
>  * Searching for /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab ...
> app-emulation/wine-1.3.1 (/usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab)

And I will add that the actual wine gecko files that get installed are
Windows files and will be located inside your wine directory at
c:/windows/system/gecko/1.0.0/wine_gecko/

[gentoo-user] Re: Wine complains about Gecko

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/07/2010 08:11 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
>> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog
>> appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might not
>> work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but mentions
>> that it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in this case, would offer it
>> and install it from there.
>
> I have it on my system as part of wine. I can run "wine iexplore" and
> I get the WINE Internet Explorer and it can successfully load web
> pages.
>
> $ equery b /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab
>   * Searching for /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab ...
> app-emulation/wine-1.3.1 (/usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab)

The file is here too.  So I guess it's supposed to be installed manually 
by the user?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wine complains about Gecko

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 08:11 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
>>>
>>> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog
>>> appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might
>>> not
>>> work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but mentions
>>> that it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in this case, would offer
>>> it
>>> and install it from there.
>>
>> I have it on my system as part of wine. I can run "wine iexplore" and
>> I get the WINE Internet Explorer and it can successfully load web
>> pages.
>>
>> $ equery b /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab
>>  * Searching for /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab ...
>> app-emulation/wine-1.3.1 (/usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab)
>
> The file is here too.  So I guess it's supposed to be installed manually by
> the user?

I believe it should install automatically (when it gives you the
message about it not being installed). I don't remember ever having to
do anything special.

I wonder if you rename your .wine directory & start with a fresh wine
configuration if it will work then?

Otherwise, this appears to have the manual installation instructions:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3911037&postcount=4

Good luck :)