[SOLVED] Wine Gecko Installer

[PoopyTheJ]

I hate to jump in someone else's thread with my problem but I got gecko to install correctly, however when loading pirates I get a black window with a bunch of garbage, so obviously it's not rendering correctly. Any ideas?

[cogadh]

What is Pirates?

[atowell]

It didn't install properly, so that is why it keeps trying to reinstall it. What should have happened is after the install the Wine website should have displayed.

You can manually install the engine:

1. Open a terminal and manually download/extract the Gecko package by running the following:
   NOTE - You will need to install the cabextract package from the repositories to do this
   

   wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab && cabextract wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab

2. Next, run the following to create the directories needed for Gecko:
   

   mkdir -p ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/

3. Place the extracted Gecko files into the newly created directory:
   

   mv wine_gecko ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/

4. Run regedit in the terminal. Go to HKEY_Current_User/Software/Wine/MSHTML and create a new key labeled “0.1.0”
5. In the new “0.1.0” key, create a new string value labeled “GeckoPath” and set the string value to “c:\windows\gecko\0.1.0\wine_gecko”

Gecko should be installed correctly now.

Thanks for posting this! I was getting the same problem. I went through the steps you posted, but the key and string were already created. After I looked at the regedit the html appeared in the WoW startup screen though, so something got fixed. Thanks again!

[itchanddino]

This worked for me. It's a slightly modified version of what is on the Wine page for steam:

Download this wine_gecko file to your /tmp directory

Make a file /tmp/file.reg, and in this file put:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\MSHTML]
"GeckoUrl"="z:\\tmp\\wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab"

Now do 'regedit /tmp/file.reg'
After this, do 'wine iexplore http://winehq.org'

All done!

[stwert]

Thanks so much, got it working!

[mickbuntu]

Thank You you all rock but this post was the shortest and just as good!

This worked for me. It's a slightly modified version of what is on the Wine page for steam:

Download this wine_gecko file to your /tmp directory

Make a file /tmp/file.reg, and in this file put:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\MSHTML]
"GeckoUrl"="z:\\tmp\\wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab"

Now do 'regedit /tmp/file.reg'
After this, do 'wine iexplore http://winehq.org'

All done!

[cpxondo]

Thanks a lot! It work just fine!

[killer64]

It didn't install properly, so that is why it keeps trying to reinstall it. What should have happened is after the install the Wine website should have displayed.

You can manually install the engine:

1. Open a terminal and manually download/extract the Gecko package by running the following:
   NOTE - You will need to install the cabextract package from the repositories to do this
   

   wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab && cabextract wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab

2. Next, run the following to create the directories needed for Gecko:
   

   mkdir -p ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/

3. Place the extracted Gecko files into the newly created directory:
   

   mv wine_gecko ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/

4. Run regedit in the terminal. Go to HKEY_Current_User/Software/Wine/MSHTML and create a new key labeled “0.1.0”
5. In the new “0.1.0” key, create a new string value labeled “GeckoPath” and set the string value to “c:\windows\gecko\0.1.0\wine_gecko”

Gecko should be installed correctly now.

uhh i get an error after the first code is says [CODE]mv: cannot move `wine_gecko' to `/home/*****/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/wine_gecko': Directory not empty
/CODE]