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 <c...@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. > > > > >
