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Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

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Richard,

Thanks for your reply.

On Sunday, 30-06-2024 at 17:11 Richard wrote:
> Depends on what you are trying to do. 

I am trying to understand how to use Wine so that I can install various Windows programs and have them work.

With the knowledge I would like to help others who are even less technical than myself, as some people have their favourite Windows program they still want to run.

For example, I understand that you can test your Wine installation by using iexplore, but this fails to display the page. I see it useful to resolve this issue at this point before trying to install two other actual programs which I would like to install but also have blank pages where there is supposed to be text.

I have not found useful documentation that can get me over the "Could not find Wine Gecko",  "Failed to init Gecko" error messages.

$ wine iexplore
Could not find Wine Gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
010c:err:mshtml:create_document_object Failed to init Gecko, returning CLASS_E_CLASSNOTAVAILABLE

Another issue I would like to resolve, is it possible to get a rpc service running?. This service is not showing in Task Manager. I assume it is actually possible, but I do know know how and have not succeeded.

err:ole:start_rpcss Failed to open RpcSs service

https://www.coretechnologies.com/blog/windows-services/rpcss/

Maybe some of these OLE messages are related to the RPC service?

074c:err:mscoree:CLRRuntimeInfo_GetRuntimeDirectory error reading registry key for installroot
074c:err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111 for dll L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msimtf.dll"
074c:err:ole:com_get_class_object no class object {c1ee01f2-b3b6-4a6a-9ddd-e988c088ec82} could be created for context 0x401
074c:err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111 for dll L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msimtf.dll"
074c:err:ole:com_get_class_object no class object {c1ee01f2-b3b6-4a6a-9ddd-e988c088ec82} could be created for context 0x401
0330:err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0xc004f012
0330:err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0xc004f012
0330:err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0xc004f012

> But in my experience, if you don't
> need to do some heavy work to maybe get something to work, 

Now you have a point there. To be honest, there was only one Windows program I personally wanted to run, and it is non-essential anyway (and it works in Wine without changing the Wine installation). 

PlayOnLinux is running one of the programs I have been testing with, but my thoughts is that if PlayOnLinux can, then so should Wine. I just want to know how to use Wine.


> take a look at
> Bottles [1]. 

Mostly I only install software that is available in the Debian or Arch repositories, and I cannot find Bottles in the Debian Repository. I do not use snaps or flatpacks. Maybe I should but I don't.
Hopefully one day, Bottles will mature to the point it can go through the Debian packaging system. I appreciate Debian's packaging systems. 


> It's kinda a GUI for Wine and Proton and seems to have some
> tricks up its sleeves. So take a look at it, maybe it can do everything you
> are trying to do.
> 
> Best
> Richard
> 
> [1]: https://usebottles.com/
> 
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 06:33 George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know of really simple but comprehensive instructions on how to
> > use and configure Wine, that you can send me links to?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > George.
> >
> >
> 

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How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-06-30 02:20 +0200
  Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 09:20 +0200
    Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 14:50 +0200
    Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-07-01 01:30 +0200
      Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 07:50 +0200
        Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-07-01 08:40 +0200
          Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 09:50 +0200
        Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-07-01 21:00 +0200
          Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 02:20 +0200
            Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-07-02 03:00 +0200
              Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 10:20 +0200
      Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 10:50 +0200
        Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-07-01 11:20 +0200
          Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 14:20 +0200
          Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-07-01 16:50 +0200
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