Bug 3006 - winetricks, helper script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries needed to run some programs in Wine.
Summary: winetricks, helper script to download and install various redistributable run...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New RPM package request (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian Hubold
QA Contact:
URL: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 5666 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-10-10 08:58 CEST by Pavel Vasin
Modified: 2025-01-07 20:51 CET (History)
12 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: winetricks
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments

Description Pavel Vasin 2011-10-10 08:58:45 CEST
It would be nice to have winetricks as a separate package (or maybe in wine package).
Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-10 19:11:16 CEST

URL: (none) => http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks
Source RPM: (none) => winetricks

Comment 1 José Jorge 2011-10-10 21:42:26 CEST
According with http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

"Although using winetricks may be very useful for getting some programs working in Wine, doing so may limit your ability to get support though WineHQ."

I don't feel we should provide a simple shell script that any user can download to ~/bin/ and use easily...

CC: (none) => lists.jjorge

Comment 2 Pavel Vasin 2011-10-11 08:26:46 CEST
This is not so simple shell script. User also need manually install dependencies.
Comment 3 Kamil Rytarowski 2011-11-25 06:29:17 CET
Arch, Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu etc include it.

CC: (none) => krytarowski

Comment 4 Gene Alexander 2012-01-09 20:34:36 CET
I too would like to see winetricks included as an RPM. The whole reason to use a Linux distribution's packaging system is to avoid having to download and keep up with a bunch of software packages.

My reason: I intend to see what I can do to get UPS WorldShip 2012 installed and working under WINE for shipping our custom PC systems preloaded with Mageia world-wide. For this I need to install Mono for Windows under wine. The suggested installation method for Mono for Windows under wine is "winetricks (monoW32version)".

CC: (none) => subs

Marja Van Waes 2012-02-17 17:23:28 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Summary: request: winetricks => winetricks, helper script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries needed to run some programs in Wine.
Whiteboard: (none) => X

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-29 11:16:47 CEST
*** Bug 5666 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => jovansp

Damien Lallement 2013-06-25 21:00:12 CEST

CC: (none) => mageia
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 6 Morgan Leijström 2014-01-09 02:31:04 CET
q4wine is in mageia and it can download and install winetricks elegantly :)

CC: (none) => fri

Comment 7 Isaiah Sellassie 2015-12-28 04:46:49 CET
(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #6)
> q4wine is in mageia and it can download and install winetricks elegantly :)

How? Instructions please.

CC: (none) => isaiah36

Comment 8 Morgan Leijström 2015-12-28 11:53:49 CET
(In reply to Isaiah Sellassie from comment #7)
> (In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #6)
> > q4wine is in mageia and it can download and install winetricks elegantly :)
> 
> How? Instructions please.

For reference see about half way down this link (or web search for more)
https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-windows-apps-with-q4wine-linux/
Comment 9 Isaiah Sellassie 2015-12-28 11:58:19 CET
(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #8)
> (In reply to Isaiah Sellassie from comment #7)
> > (In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #6)
> > > q4wine is in mageia and it can download and install winetricks elegantly :)
> > 
> > How? Instructions please.
> 
> For reference see about half way down this link (or web search for more)
> https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-windows-apps-with-q4wine-linux/

OK, so it is not "elegantly" then :)
Comment 10 Otto Leipälä 2015-12-29 15:04:44 CET
Q4wine is best frontend to wine it's even ported to qt5,now main developer have started to again development q4wine.
Here is documents to q4wine if somebody need them they are added back to online.
http://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/
https://github.com/brezerk/q4wine

CC: (none) => otto.leipala

Comment 11 Marja Van Waes 2016-05-13 18:30:33 CEST
RE-assigning to the default assignee for package requests, since the assignee went MIA

Status: ASSIGNED => NEW
Assignee: mageia => pkg-bugs
Whiteboard: X => (none)

Comment 12 Florian Hubold 2016-05-16 14:26:47 CEST
IMHO we should just add winetricks wo our wine package, as not all people have a need for things like q4wine, playonlinux or similar, and several people here asked explicitly for winetricks. Sometimes just unattended installation of some libraries is required. I'll just stick winetricks and the required dependencies into our wine package.

Assignee: pkg-bugs => doktor5000
Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
CC: (none) => doktor5000

Comment 13 Cyril Levet 2020-08-23 13:00:14 CEST
The winetricks package still not exists in Mageia 7 or Mageia Cauldron (8) and is useful for installing a recent version of Adobe reader for example. Moreover a package exists on Fedora 32, CentOS 8 and OpenSUSE : https://pkgs.org/download/winetricks

CC: (none) => cyril.levet0780

Comment 14 Hans Micheelsen 2020-12-18 16:30:49 CET
Still valid!!! Can it be done for mga 8?

CC: (none) => micheelsen

Comment 15 Morgan Leijström 2022-10-07 14:00:21 CEST
(In reply to Florian Hubold from comment #12)
> IMHO we should just add winetricks wo our wine package, as not all people
> have a need for things like q4wine, playonlinux or similar, and several
> people here asked explicitly for winetricks. Sometimes just unattended
> installation of some libraries is required. I'll just stick winetricks and
> the required dependencies into our wine package.

Status on this?

(apart from asking, I dont know if it is still useful)

I also note that Q4wine (comment 10) is in mga8 and Cauldron.
Comment 16 Morgan Leijström 2025-01-07 20:51:38 CET
According to https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Ways_to_install_programs#Wine,
Q4wine contain winetricks.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED


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