To all who replied, Thanks. Sadly after further testing I still have very little success with Wine.
When I installed WineHQ's Wine Installation, Gecko and Mono were able to be installed. I noticed a rpcss.exe (from memory) in Taskmgr. This at least allowed me to display the initial web page in Wine's Iexplore. But sadly it did not help me in successfully installing the current Windows versions of Firefox or Chrome, or other programs I was having challenges with. I also tried PlayOnLinux without any success. The "Time vs ROI" for this endeavour suggests to me, that for now, I should just use Linux native programs. Regards, George. On Monday, 01-07-2024 at 15:48 didier gaumet wrote: > Le 01/07/2024 à 01:24, George at Clug a écrit : > [...] > > I have not found useful documentation that can get me over the "Could not > > find Wine Gecko", "Failed to init Gecko" error messages. > [...] > > Hello, > > disclaimer: I have not used Wine in ages, so I cannot be of real help > > Note, you could tell what Debian distro you are using (12 Bookworm?) and > if you have enabled multiarch support in it. > > the Debian wiki page about Wine is here: > https://wiki.debian.org/Wine > it states that for whatever reason "Windows software may require Mono > for .NET, and Gecko for any HTML rendering. Debian has disabled these by > default and do not provide packages.": > Windows software may require Mono for .NET, and Gecko for any HTML > rendering. Debian has disabled these by default and do not provide > packages. > > The WineHQ page about Gecko is here: > https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko > > Two posts about solving Wine/Gecko problems on Debian Bookworm: > https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154513 > https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=38245 > >
