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whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

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[solved] For each new wine prefix / need to install mono?

Hi!

Haven't "worked" with wine for a while now and I don't remember getting prompted to download/install wine ("bla bla no mono detected... download / install / you should use your distributions package or something", guess winecfg is doing that) every time I create a new prefix.

Has something changed here? Or did I change something (remove a package, compile wine the wrong way)? Or did I just forget about that dialogue?I think basic mono support just used to be there... just like it's with gecko, using an archlinux package or something... but I'm not sure. The only "mono-package" I have installed is: "mono 2.10.8-1"... so...  uhm...

TL/DR: Why no mono automatically there / how fix it? I'm confused.

Thanks!

Last edited by whoops (2012-06-11 13:42:52)

fiddlinmacx

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Registered: 2011-03-02

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Re: [solved] For each new wine prefix / need to install mono?

Try looking here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/Mono

fiddlinmacx

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 89

Re: [solved] For each new wine prefix / need to install mono?

The newest version of wine adds automatic installation of mono. It's looking for an MSI
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.5.6
There is a wine-mono package in the AUR as well that you can try.

whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

Re: [solved] For each new wine prefix / need to install mono?

Try looking here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/Mono

I already looked there at the beginning of my "journey", it only confused me more

The newest version of wine adds automatic installation of mono. It's looking for an MSI
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.5.6
There is a wine-mono package in the AUR as well that you can try.

That though, explains everything, thanks!
( For some reason I thought wine was trying to use parts of my native mono and couldn't find it, somehow totally missed the "msi part" :3 )

=> solved

edit: In case you have the MSI in place but it's still downloading mono every time: Check the md5sum. There seem to be different valid & working versions of the msi around (maybe for different languages?), but only one seems to be recognized by wine. That one seems to work for me at the moment: 972b4e96e677c2cf5065fbdd13183c66

Last edited by whoops (2012-06-16 08:04:48)