Ubuntu 17.10 repository does not have gecko package and wine-mono package

[Dima]

1) Libuntu 17.10 (development branch)
2) There is no difference, but wine-stable package has 2.0.2-2ubuntu1 version
3) wine needs gecko to run its Internet Explorer and wine-mono package for Microsoft .NET applications.
4) Ubuntu repository has not neither gecko nor wine-mono packages

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I don't know the details around these packages, but looks like both packages were removed in (or after) Ubuntu 17.04.

For details, see
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine-mono0.0.8/+publishinghistory and bug 1628116 for wine-mono
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine-gecko2.21/+publishinghistory and bug 1628115 for wine-gecko.

[Dima (dima2017)]

But when I try to run iexplorer.exe:

user@user:/var/tmp/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet Explorer$ wine ./iexplore.exe
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
wine: configuration in '/home/user/.wine' has been updated.
err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
err:mshtml:HTMLDocument_Create Failed to init Gecko, returning CLASS_E_CLASSNOTAVAILABLE

And I just can't to see any page.
Maybe something changed for wine 2.0.2-2ubuntu1? Should I post this message to there too? What do you think?

[jre (jre-phoenix)]

Unfortunately we don't provide wine-gecko or -mono packages currently. Just needs someone to do them.

However you can install them manually.

See the instructions with "zless /usr/share/doc/wine-stable/README.Debian.gz" or here: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-wine/wine.git/tree/debian/README.debian?h=buster#n135