iexplorer under wine is missing wine-gecko

I'm not quite sure when it happened but a package for wine-gecko is no longer installed (I'm at Ubuntu 20.10).

This means that the Wine Internet Explorer, which uses a Gecko engine, will no longer work.

There is no error displayed on the app, but if you run it from a console the will be error messages displayed that mention the fact that Gecko is missing.

How can I resolve this issue?

2 Answers

I am using Ubuntu 20.10 also and I was getting the message:

winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path...

I tried the solution of Gustavo Carreno by downloading, extracting and copying the 32 bit package and also removing it and trying with the 64 bit package, but I was still getting the same message.

After some trials I found the solution for my case which is given in the following steps:

• I downloaded the latest 64 bit of Gecko from :

 $ wget 

• Ran the following:

 $ wine msiexec /i wine-gecko-2.47.1-x86_64.msi 

• The installation added the following directory underneath my home directory:

 $ ls -l /home/_myuser_/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/gecko/2.47.1/ wine_gecko

• Now, Internet Explorer (when run using the wine64 iexplore.exe command) displays the web pages correctly.

It took some Googling but I finally was able to solve this issue:

1. Download the *.tar.bz2 with the latest version as listed under
2. Uncompress the contents somewhere
3. Move the uncompressed folder to /usr/share/wine renaming it gecko
4. To be clear on point 3: mv /path/to/umcompressed/folder /usr/share/wine/gecko

I've also read some pages that say that when you create a new prefix wine asks if you want to download gecko (and maybe mono, not sure), but I've added prefixes manually and with winetricks and never got asked to download wine-gecko.

EDIT

I've now realized that this worked on a machine that had wine installed since Ubuntu 19.04 or older but not with a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.10.

I'm still baffled at how this even worked in that one machine.

The answer provided by @FedonKadifeli is the accurate way to do it.

That is:

1. Download the *.msi files from
2. Run wine msiexec /i wine-gecko-{version}-{arch}.msi