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PDF Accessibilty Checker (PAC) on Linux with Wine

Download .NET and fonts

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-pac wineboot --init
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-pac winetricks --force dotnet48 allfonts

Installing corefonts is not enough

Download Gecko

Download correct Gecko version for your Wine installation from here: https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-pac wine start wine-gecko-2.47.2-x86_64.msi

Check installation

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine uninstaller --list

should show output similar to

{92FB6C44-E685-45AD-9B20-CADF4CABA132} - 1033|||Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8
{8F52B55B-5164-4458-B4F6-B6A6EA67DF65}|||Wine Gecko (64-bit)
{47A1FA26-B71E-5325-8161-20CF885181FF}|||Wine Mono Runtime
{7426CCE2-5341-534D-BAB0-1DAEDCCE76CE}|||Wine Mono Windows Support

Start PAC

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-pac wine start "PAC.exe"
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