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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:12:53
Message-Id: AANLkTinzmM3821xWmfQdV=8n_y-T-Jm=pvrj7UYTaz_d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko by Paul Hartman
1 On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Paul Hartman
2 <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
4 >> When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog
5 >> appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might not
6 >> work (which it doesn't).  It has an "install" button there, but mentions
7 >> that it would be better if the distro, Gentoo in this case, would offer it
8 >> and install it from there.
9 >
10 > I have it on my system as part of wine. I can run "wine iexplore" and
11 > I get the WINE Internet Explorer and it can successfully load web
12 > pages.
13 >
14 > $ equery b /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab
15 >  * Searching for /usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab ...
16 > app-emulation/wine-1.3.1 (/usr/share/wine/gecko/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab)
17
18 And I will add that the actual wine gecko files that get installed are
19 Windows files and will be located inside your wine directory at
20 c:/windows/system/gecko/1.0.0/wine_gecko/