Wine Gecko Installer

**reyhan** · May 10th, 2008

Hello i just installed Counter Strike 1.6 and when i want to play it Why do i have To install Wine Gecko? and how do i install it ?

**cogadh** · May 10th, 2008

Gecko is required for HTML rendering. To install, just open a terminal and type:

Code:

wine iexplore http://www.winehq.org

Follow the prompts and it will install itself. You will know the install is complete and successful when the WineHQ website is displayed.

**reyhan** · May 11th, 2008

And why Wine Needs gecko?

**cogadh** · May 11th, 2008

As I said, it is required for HTML rendering. Wine doesn't have an HTML rendering engine built in, so it needs the standard Gecko engine installed.

**reyhan** · May 11th, 2008

i already follow the prompt but the
WineHQ website is not being displayed

**cogadh** · May 11th, 2008

Did Gecko actually download (there should have been a progress bar)? If it didn't or it did but didn't install for some reason, then you can either try the automatic method again, or do this:

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
Code:
```
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab && cabextract wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab
```
Next, run the following to create the directories needed for Gecko:
Code:
```
mkdir -p ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/
```
Place the extracted Gecko files into the newly created directory:
Code:
```
mv wine_gecko ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/
```
Run regedit in the terminal. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/MSHTML and create a new key labelled "0.1.0"
In the new "0.1.0" key, create a new string value labelled "GeckoPath" and set the string value to "c:\windows\gecko\0.1.0\wine_gecko"

That's it, Gecko should be installed now.

**reyhan** · May 11th, 2008

Ok....
now i am confused i already follow your instruction but
still same??????

**reyhan** · May 11th, 2008

this is the screenshots on the registry
is it correct?

**svn7svn** · August 12th, 2012

Originally Posted by reyhan

this is the screenshots on the registry
is it correct?

mine looks the same now. is there a command you can run in the terminal to see if it's done properly, or some other way to confirm?

**overdrank** · August 12th, 2012

From the Ubuntu Forums Code of Conduct.

If a post is older than a year or so and hasn't had a new reply in that time, instead of replying to it, create a new thread. In the software world, a lot can change in a very short time, and doing things this way makes it more likely that you will find the best information. You may link to the original discussion in the new thread if you think it may be helpful.

Thread closed.