On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 09/07/2010 08:11 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@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 :)
