[Bug 1886] windows media player 9 setup fails

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

--- Comment #46 from Steven DuChene   2010-01-07 13:26:14 ---
(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?