Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko
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)
Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com 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) 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/
Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko
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) -- A
