Current latest stable bugs, syntax errors, kdialog and zenity

[ZelphirKaltstahl]

It seems that the current latest stable script, that I downloaded from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks today (2025-01-16) has syntax errors.

I am running it on Debian 12 KDE. Here are the errors when trying to use it with kdialog, which it automatically chooses:

$ WINEPREFIX=/home/xiaolong/PlayOnLinux\'s\ virtual\ drives/lf2_wine_prefix_32bit ./winetricks
Executing cd .
Using winetricks 20250102-next - sha256sum: 93280026a9226cdd4b24c93efe9920f883418922f6e2a4c7e610fa054f0bfea1 with wine-8.0 (Debian 8.0~repack-4) and WINEARCH=win32
QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
winetricks GUI enabled, using kdialog 22.12.3
QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
x:  100   y:  100   w:  600   h:  400
QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
x:  100   y:  100   w:  600   h:  400
/tmp/winetricks.eqw2oAci/w.xiaolong.27686/kdialog.sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
x:  100   y:  100   w:  600   h:  400

The error /tmp/winetricks.eqw2oAci/w.xiaolong.27686/kdialog.sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected happens, when I try to Install a Windows DLL or component:

Clicking "OK" there causes the error and I get back to the same dialog again.

So I searched around the issues in this repo and found, that one can change the GUI used to zenity. I tried that, but also ran into a syntax error:

$ WINEPREFIX=/home/xiaolong/PlayOnLinux\'s\ virtual\ drives/lf2_wine_prefix_32bit ./winetricks --gui=zenity
Executing cd .
winetricks GUI enabled, using zenity 3.44.0
Using winetricks 20250102-next - sha256sum: 93280026a9226cdd4b24c93efe9920f883418922f6e2a4c7e610fa054f0bfea1 with wine-8.0 (Debian 8.0~repack-4) and WINEARCH=win32
Executing mkdir -p /home/xiaolong/.cache/winetricks
/tmp/winetricks.RmmU7oXx/w.xiaolong.32485/zenity.sh: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

This error happens already when I Select the default wineprefix and click "OK" there:

So both currently seem to be broken, and as a consequence I seem unable to use the current latest winetricks script. I am not sure things would be any different, if I installed using the make command, but I would rather like to not install into system directories, if I see a breakage in it and later might have to tediously clean up again.

Is there any simple fix? Maybe I am doing something wrong?

[Chiitoo]

No need to install Winetricks since it is a plain shell script, so nothing wrong there (though might want to make sure you are running the version of Winetricks you think you are running (for example, not a system-installed one when want to run one you just downloaded)).

So far I can't reproduce here with kdialog-24.12.1 at least, but can try some more later.

[austin987]

Can you attach attach kdialog.sh/zenity.sh?

[ZelphirKaltstahl]

I have to zip them, because .sh files are not allowed to be attached here.

kdialog-and-zenity-sh.tar.gz