[Bug 57172] New: Installing winehq-stable 9.0 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not offer to install Mono or Gecko

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57172

Bug ID: 57172
           Summary: Installing winehq-stable 9.0 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does
                    not offer to install Mono or Gecko
           Product: Packaging
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-packages
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

When installing winehq-stable in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, neither Wine Mono nor Wine
Gecko are offered (as they should be according to
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Wine-Mono and
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Wine-Mono. Installation of
winehq-stable completes without error, but executing $ wine uninstaller shows
that Wine Mono is not present, and executing $ wine iexplore fails for lack of
Wine Gecko.

Both winehq-devel and winehq-staging offer Mono and Gecko, and those are
installed and functional.

The winehq-stable installation has been a problem for a few days, at least.

I rated Severity as Major on the grounds that the absence of Mono and Gecko
will cause many Windows apps to fail if installed with Wine Stable. In
addition, the problem affects all Ubuntu flavors and other distros based on
Ubuntu 24.04.

Many thanks for your attention to this issue.

[Bug 57172] Installing winehq-stable 9.0 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not offer to install Mono or Gecko

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57172

Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |NOTOURBUG
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

--- Comment #1 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
There are no winehq-stable packages for 24.04 yet, because 24.04 was not yet
released when Wine 9.0 came out, and there hasn't been an update to the stable
branch. Our packaging for 24.04 started with 9.8.
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/

Presumably you encountered this issue with someone else's package; report the
problem to them.

[Bug 57172] Installing winehq-stable 9.0 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not offer to install Mono or Gecko

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--- Comment #2 from David  ---
Thank you for the very quick response. I understand your explanation, as I have
previously seen Wine Stable unavailable for the reason you give.

You wrote "Presumably you encountered this issue with someone else's package".

Regrets, but No. I used the WineHQ package, and it installs Wine Stable
flawlessly, except without Mono or Gecko. It would be better if Wine Stable
were simply unavailable, which is the behavior I have experienced previously.

If it would be helpful, I can provide a copy of the installation, which follows
precisely the WineHQ directions in
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Debian-Ubuntu, and loads the
winehq-noble.sources.

Best wishes ...David

[Bug 57172] Installing winehq-stable 9.0 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not offer to install Mono or Gecko

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--- Comment #3 from David  ---
To be precise, it is wine-9.0 that is installed, which is reported in response
to the command "wine --version".

[Bug 57172] Installing winehq-stable 9.0 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not offer to install Mono or Gecko

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--- Comment #4 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
There are no wine-stable packages in
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/ and no
packages older than 9.8. I don't know where you got the package you did
install, but it was not from our noble repository, and therefore is not
supported here.

Note that if you installed one of our packages built for an older version of
Ubuntu into 24.04, that is also not supported.

Also note that the prompt to download mono and gecko is part of wine itself,
not something added to our packages.

There is nothing for us to fix here.

[Bug 57172] Installing winehq-stable 9.0 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not offer to install Mono or Gecko

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David  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|NOTOURBUG                   |FIXED

--- Comment #5 from David  ---
This morning I started a fresh installation of Wine Stable (wine-9.0) intending
to leave with you a copy of the terminal session leading to the installation of
wine-9.0 but the command

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

responded with

"Unable to locate package wine-stable"

as it should. This confirms what you last wrote, and sometime in the last day
or two the problem has been fixed. All is well.

Best wishes ...David

[Bug 57172] Installing winehq-stable 9.0 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not offer to install Mono or Gecko

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Austin English  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|FIXED                       |INVALID

--- Comment #6 from Austin English  ---
Closing invalid (nothing was fixed in wine/packages).