Pre-downloaded Wine Gecko Installer?

notfed · Post by **notfed** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:10 pm

Hi,

I've been doing a lot of testing in isolated WINEPREFIX environments. So, I'm constantly creating new .wine folders and having to run winecfg to set them up. Well, each time I do this, I have to watch the Wine Gecko Installer progress bar, and sometimes it can be slow (like if my internet connection is bogged up).

I wish I could keep a local copy that WINE would pull instead of downloading it every time. I've seen someone in this forum post a few commands to use to install Gecko (basically a copy of the installed components, along with a registry key to import), but (A) importing the registry keys didnt work for me and (B) I need a way to do this in a single script without requiring human interaction.

Anyone have any ideas here? Basically, I want to end up with a script "InstallGecko.sh", that installs it to my WINEPREFIX directory, with no popups, no questions asked.

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:21 pm

I agree. I've actually been contemplating starting a thread about too many Geckos myself, but never got around to it.

I would love to know how to only have to download Gecko once as well, and how to occasionally update it.

Cheers,
SpawnHappy

Bruno Jesus · Post by **Bruno Jesus** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:29 pm

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 20:21, SpawnHappyJake <[email protected]> wrote:

I agree. I've actually been contemplating starting a thread about too many Geckos myself, but never got around to it.

I would love to know how to only have to download Gecko once as well, and how to occasionally update it. Â :D

Please, take a look at: http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko

In other words:
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/w ... .3-x86.msi
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/wine/gecko
$ sudo mv wine_gecko-1.3-x86.msi /usr/share/wine/gecko/

Best wishes,
Bruno

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:13 pm

I remember trying that and it still downloading for each new prefix. I'll have to try it again.
Thank you,
Jake

Mateusz Stachowski · Post by **Mateusz Stachowski** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:43 am

Even better way of doing this would be to install a wine-gecko package from repositories. Ubuntu has it in repositories (for wine1.2 and wine1.3 also it is in Wine PPA) but I don't know if other distributions provide that package.

Another way of doing this is through winetricks just issue from terminal:

env WINEPREFIX="/path/" winetricks gecko

with path corresponding to your wineprefix location. Winetricks will download gecko to it's cache directory and then it can be used multiple times without the need of downloading.

Anyway the best way is to find a package for your distribution.

Post by **DanKegel** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:05 pm

Try
wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trun ... l-gecko.sh
sh install-gecko.sh

notfed · Post by **notfed** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:14 pm

Dan's method looked the simplest, so I tried it.

Looks like after doing that once, it doesn't have to install Gecko anymore. Cool beans! Thanks!

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:44 am

Sorry for the delayed response. I tried Dan Kegel's method as well, and it worked! Yippee!

Even when I make a new prefix, upon the first run of a program in that new prefix, the WINE updater doesn't ask about trying to download Gecko. It sees it and installs it.

Smiles,
Jake