http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18421
--- Comment #2 from Nigel Galloway nigel_galloway@yahoo.com 2009-05-13 06:43:05 --- First I tried the instructions as described in the documentation above as: 'sudo mv wine_gecko-0.9.1.cab /usr/share/wine/gecko/'
When I tried to run Wine it could not find VERSION file. I thought this was probably wrong and that the cab file needed to be uncabbed. This I did in /usr/share/wine/gecko/. Wine could still not find it.
I then found the entry in user.reg which pointed to C:\Program Files\gecko. I have made this a soft link to /usr/share/wine/gecko and I can now start IE.