Define browser to be used within wine

[sheep225]

Hi there,

I'm running GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) on Wine 1.6.2 under Linuxmint 17.3 Cinnamon. Everything is working well so far, just for one thing I need a workaround:
GSAK produces output as a HTML file, including graphics. The file opens automatically with the default Linux browser, but the graphics are stored under drive_C and therefore are not displayed as expected.

I think the solution would be to define a browser to be used within wine, so the HTML file should be displayed as it should be.

Can anyone show me how to force wine to use an other browser than the default Linux browser?
I just found tutorials to force the Linux browser, but nothing for the opposite way....

[dimesio]

Did you install wine-gecko? Wine should use that by default.

Also, your Wine version is over two years old and no longer supported; you should upgrade.

[sheep225]

I started with Wine (version 1.6.2 is included in the Mint/Ubuntu packages); now I installed wine-gecko from the packages.

Should I uninstall the plain wine package and just use wine-gecko instead? (version 2.21 is provided in the packages)

[dimesio]

You need both Wine and wine-gecko. Use the WineHQ packages for Wine, and install wine-gecko manually.
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko

[sheep225]

Ok, now I have uninstalled wine and all stuff in it, the re-installed it as recommended. Gsak works fine as before, but I don't if something went wrong... in the Gecko link above it is stated that the msi files should be placed into /usr/share/wine/gecko, but I cannot find such a directory.
Is there a way I can check and/or force the installation?
Typing wine gecko into a terminal returns a "dll not found" error, so I think Gecko isn't installed at all...

[dimesio]

in the Gecko link above it is stated that the msi files should be placed into /usr/share/wine/gecko, but I cannot find such a directory.

Create it.

Typing wine gecko into a terminal returns a "dll not found" error, so I think Gecko isn't installed at all...

The command is wine iexplore.

[sheep225]

Ok, the gecko directory still does not exist but with wine iexploer the browser opens. So this should not be the problem.
But the html file generated from GSAK still opens in Firefox and not with the gecko engine....

[dimesio]

Try installing IE8 in Wine. Use winetricks.