Error messages

[Roger Davis]

Wine Mono Question for 12.04

I'm a new user of Wine (non-liquid). There have been two updates, and after both of them, I got a notice:

"We could not find a Mono package which is needed for .NET applications to work correctly. Wine can automatically download and install it for you.
NOTE it is recommended to use your distributions packages instead. See http://wiki.winehq.org/Mono for details."

This is very confusing. The first time I just clicked "Install", and things seemed to work ok. Now the winehq page above says "Users who want to avoid download prompts can run the script http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn...stall-gecko.sh to install both gecko and mono in /usr/share/wine." Is this script the best way to go for reliable operation without warnings? If not, what is the best way? Preferably by script, or VERY clear step-by-step instructions.

I have Wine 1.5.7 .

Thanks!

[dimesio]

Is this script the best way to go for reliable operation without warnings? If not, what is the best way? Preferably by script, or VERY clear step-by-step instructions.

The best way would be a distro package, but if your distro doesn't package mono, use the script.

[Roger Davis]

I have to admit that I don't know all I would like to know about Linux and Wine, and I really need it to work reliably, so I'm trying to make sure about what I do.

I did (I thought) install a package. My installed list shows "Mono Runtime", and "Mono Runtime (Terminal) as installed. It shows "Mono IL Contrast" as available, but I got the error message I wrote about. Should I install the "Mono IL Contrast", or use the script shown at "http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/tr ... l-gecko.sh " , which I guess is the one you mean?

Thanks!

[dimesio]

I did (I thought) install a package. My installed list shows "Mono Runtime", and "Mono Runtime (Terminal) as installed. It shows "Mono IL Contrast" as available, but I got the error message I wrote about. Should I install the "Mono IL Contrast", or use the script shown at "http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/tr ... l-gecko.sh " , which I guess is the one you mean?

I think what you installed is the Linux version of Mono. What you need is wine-mono. If your distro doesn't package wine-mono, use the script.