[Bug 1886] windows media player 9 setup fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1886

--- Comment #47 from Steven DuChene   2010-01-07 14:18:33 ---
(In reply to comment #46)
> (In reply to comment #45)
> > I am getting this same issue with wine-1.1.30
> >
> > I am using winetricks to attempt an install of WMP9 in order to facilitate an
> > install of a game. When I try the install of WMP9 I get a dialog window that
> > says:
> >
> > Setup is currently unable to detect available updates. Please try again later.
> >
> > This dialog window with the above text is appearing on top of a larger install
> > window for Windows Media Player 9.
> >
> > I tried installing IE6 as some of the comments here seemed to indicate this
> > might help but that made no difference.
>
> I do notice that there is some output in the terminal window I am runnign
> winetricks from that states:
>
> Executing wine /home/sad/.winetrickscache/wmp9/MPSetup.exe
> This program tried to use an XMLDocument object, but
> libxml2 support was not present at compile time.
>
> Is this critical or not?

I included the required libxml2-devel i386 rpm on my system and then rebuilt my
wine release from existing 1.1.30 source code I already had. Now the install of
WMP9 using winetricks works and my game install is proceeding along further.

So it appears that having support for xml2 in your build of wine is critical
the WMP9 install.