html rendering and gecko on a winmx install wine 1.1.11

[labud]

opensuse 11.2 64 bit

I have downloaded and compiled/installed wine 1.1.11, so that I may use a windows program called WinMX 3.54b4 [32 bit] on my linux opensuse distro. I had been advised that Wine versions higher than this do not work well with WinMX. At the end of the compile it tells me that libgphoto2-32bit was not found and that cameras won't work. I check in Yast2 to see if it can be installed and find that it is installed. I uninstall and reinstall it and run the compile again but it still tells me that it is not installed. I am not planning on using any windows camera software, so I ignore it and carry on with the make and make install. Wine is finished and I navigate to a browser [firefox] so that I can downloadl my WinMX from a website and install it. I install winmx thru wine and it goes fine up until the 1st start instance of winmx. All of a sudden I get a popup window [Wine Gecko Installer] informing me that my application is trying to show an html page, [WinMX is a P2P music and chat program][listed on this site] and that wine needs gecko to do this. Click Install to do this.
So if I click install it just hangs and nothing happens. If I click cancel, Winmx opens and does its thing.
I have done some googling and came up with this info:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-332962.html
I went thru the steps and still nothing changed. Did a little more digging on WineHQ site and found I needed a different version of gecko for The version of wine I am using. Went thru steps again, but still this window pops up and hangs when I click the install button.
How can I get this gecko to either install or go away.
I have not had any of this happen before and I have installed and also complied a few different versions of wine and the gecko thing always was ok before too. Is it because I am compiling a 32 bit wine on a 64 bit system? I followed the directions for this very closely and had no problems before re: dependencies, etc. The prior versions that I installed on this 64 bit system are version 1.0 and version 1.2. I had no problems and they worked fine. I cannot figure out what I am doing differently or wrong. Please help. Thank You.

[dimesio]

I have downloaded and compiled/installed wine 1.1.11, so that I may use a windows program called WinMX 3.54b4 [32 bit] on my linux opensuse distro. I had been advised that Wine versions higher than this do not work well with WinMX.

Who told you that? According to the AppDB, it's rated gold for Wine 1.3.0. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=2844

[James McKenzie]

dimesio wrote:

labud wrote:

I have downloaded and compiled/installed wine 1.1.11, so that I may use a windows program called WinMX 3.54b4 [32 bit] on my linux opensuse distro. I had been advised that Wine versions higher than this do not work well with WinMX.

Who told you that? According to the AppDB, it's rated gold for Wine 1.3.0. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=2844

Also, any version less than Wine 1.2 bug (excepting regressions) are not
being accepted anymore (correct me if I'm wrong folks..)

James McKenzie

[labud]

I am sorry. My point was not to slam the newer versions of Wine. In fact I did say that I had installed 1.2 without problems before on this 64 bit system. sorry if I was unclear.

My problem is this gecko and html rendering thing on opensuse 11.2 64 bit. At this time it will not work for me.

I install winmx thru wine and it goes fine up until the 1st start instance of winmx. All of a sudden I get a popup window [Wine Gecko Installer] informing me that my application is trying to show an html page, [WinMX is a P2P music and chat program][listed on this site] and that wine needs gecko to do this. Click Install to do this.
So if I click install it just hangs and nothing happens. If I click cancel, Winmx opens and does its thing.
I have done some googling and came up with this info:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-332962.html
I went thru the steps and still nothing changed. Did a little more digging on WineHQ site and found I needed a different version of gecko for The version of wine I am using. Went thru steps again, but still this window pops up and hangs when I click the install button.
How can I get this gecko to either install or go away.

I just want to get this gecko problem solved and have tried somethings and they are not working even with version 1.2.
Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this?
Thank You.

[dimesio]

I just want to get this gecko problem solved and have tried somethings and they are not working even with version 1.2.
Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this?

openSUSE has a wine-gecko package; just install it. If you're building Wine yourself, follow the instructions here for where to put gecko: http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko

As for the problem you're having with gecko in 1.1.11, the way to install gecko was changed precisely because of the problem with downloading you describe. It's a bug that has already been fixed, and the solution is to upgrade. As James said, versions that old are no longer supported here.

[labud]

Allrighty then, I will go to Wine 1.2. Hopefully it will behave as best it can.
Thank You.
Maybe you can also tell me what is the criteria for getting something fixed on a program[software] that runs with wine? How does one go about asking/reporting problems and how is it decided whether it will get any attention?
Thank You

[dimesio]

Maybe you can also tell me what is the criteria for getting something fixed on a program[software] that runs with wine? How does one go about asking/reporting problems and how is it decided whether it will get any attention?

Some basic guidelines for bug reporting: http://wiki.winehq.org/Bugs

As to how it's decided whether a given bug gets any attention, Wine is a volunteer project, and developers choose what they want to work on. Regressions usually do get attention, but if you're reporting one, you will need to run a regression test to identify the commit that caused it.

[labud]

Thank you dimesio.