On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:17 AM, gariac <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried all sorts of winetricks. All the dotnets, plus wininet. Anyway, I used winetricks to install internet explorer, figuring it might be a good way to insure there were no firewall issues. I can reach the internet in wine through IE6. Then I figured it might works if I just installed google earth from the browser within wine. [Google earth detects your OS and supplies the proper file. I had to download google earth on a windows box then transfer to my linux box for my first attempt at installing google earth.] > > As luck would have it, I couldn't download google earth from ie6 within wine due to a javascript error. Continuing with the bootstrapping, I downloaded firefox3 via internet explorer. [The winetricks bombed when attempting to install firefox3]. I got firefox3 going and managed to download google earth. Well, technically, google insists I download google updater. > > I set up winecfg to run google updater. Wine generated this error message when trying to run google updater: > ------------------------------ > fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0) > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > In addition, a wine window popped up entitled "Application error". The error message is: > ------------------------ > The procedure WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId could not be located in the DLL KERNEL32.dll. > -------------------------------------- > > I did attempt to load all the active X control from winetricks. One of them comlained about not being able to connect to the desktop via DDE, but installed anyway. Winetricks isn't meant to be used for every single function, just bits and pieces to get what you need. I'd suggest starting in a fresh ~/.wine, filing a bug for each step that's broken and that winetricks can fix -- -Austin
