Comments on: Running Internet Explorer in Ubuntu Linux

By: Amit

Amit — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:38:03 +0000

Hi,
I installed ies4linux on ubuntu 8.04. script ie6 got installed in $(HOME)/bin directory. When I run it first time, it worked nicely. But when I closed the browser window, I found that script at the command prompt did not exit. Even ctrl-C did not work. So I killed it. Next time I ran the script, nothing appeared. I see (using ps -aef) that wine is running iexplorer but nothing appears. My DISPLAY is correctly set. Help ?

Regards,
Amit

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:30:56 +0000

Hi,
it’s working with Lucid ! Thanks for this great stuff ! I will recommend this for my buddies.

Br,
Peter.

By: kdas

kdas — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:24:31 +0000

Hey there… just wanted to ask you to please update above’s script with the version found here http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation

namely: please replace the version number by “-latest” - I just used yours and it didn’t work completely, leaving some nice leftovers on my system… :-/

By: Terrymon

Terrymon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:58:28 +0000

Getting this to work with the Karmic version of Ubuntu is a problem but I got it to work… install latest wine and ies4linux but you will need to go into synaptic and completely remove the package “wine” afterwards and reinstall the one from the ubuntu repostitory as without it 100% cpu usage occurs as the new integration fixes are missing from the winehq release. IE now will install and run properly, tested on a compaq deskpro with intel pentium iii 586 processor with about 370MB of RAM. Also have quicken 2000 running smoothly on same box.

ies4linux needs updated; banks no longer support ie6. and ie7 is still buggy…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:46:53 +0000

2.99 appears to not like the version of WINE that is being used by Jaunty at the moment (8/26/2009). Your best bet is to go back a generation to 2.0; this seems to work fine. So, I have to disagree, Brett. Stick to 2.0.5 and things should work fine.

At some point (when Ubuntu’s WINE has caught up) this will no longer be necessary, so feel free to try latest, but if that fails, go back to the 2.0 or 2.0.5

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:20:24 +0000

You really should change ‘ies4linux-2.0.5.tar.gz’ to ‘ies4linux-latest.tar.gz’

By: dan

dan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:54:01 +0000

Removed wine-gecko, still couldn’t install on jaunty:
Installing IE 6
Initializing
Creating Wine Prefix
Extracting CAB files
Installing IE 6
Installing DCOM98
Installing TTF Fonts
Installing ActiveX MFC42
/home/danrah/.ies4linux/downloads/mfc42.cab: No such file or directory
An error occured when trying to cabextract some files.

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:14:11 +0000

I was able to just use the IE tab on firefox on my mac shouldn’t it also work on ubuntu since both are unix

By: ATOzTOA

ATOzTOA — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:57:09 +0000

Here is how to unistall ies4linux

There is no uninstall option because it is simple: just remove the files.

Usually you have to remove:

* ~/.ies4linux folder
* Executables at ~/bin
* Desktop shortcuts

If you configured different folders, just remove them.

By: Pedro Sanchez

Pedro Sanchez — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:15:48 +0000

I couldn’t install ies4linux on Jaunty until I removed wine-gecko, which I had previously installed with Wine.

After uninstalling wine-gecko ies4linux executed without errors.

By: SeanJM

SeanJM — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:34:59 +0000

For all you Jaunty’s out there, instead of running ./ies4linux run ./ies4linux --no-gui

This will do the automatic install with IE 6 and flash without the gui which I think is what is causing the most problems out there.

By: Millennium

Millennium — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:10:56 +0000

It worked for me in Jaunty on my second try. The first time there were GTK-related errors, but those didn’t occur on the second time. I think my mistake the first time might have been related to the scrollbars: once you hit the Install button, don’t touch the window until everything is finished.

By: Gatti

Gatti — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:20:03 +0000

It works on Ubuntu Jaunty. I just left default options. My Wine is 1.0.1

By: trent

trent — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:16:44 +0000

I second that, IEs4Linux doesn’t work for me anymore on Jaunty, I was previously working great..

By: Martin Espinoza

Martin Espinoza — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:38:26 +0000

IEs4Linux is now broken and doesn’t work on Ubuntu Jaunty (worked on Intrepid.) Looks like it’s been abandoned.

By: Mikhailov Anatoly

Mikhailov Anatoly — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:31:42 +0000

http://railsgeek.com/2009/3/2/internet-explorer-free-ubuntu-linux-virtualbox
My job is web application development, so I have to test my projects under most popular browsers, like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Google Chrome.
Firefox, Opera, GoogleChrome work great under my Ubuntu Box, and the other once work under Wine.
*Internet Explorer*. It’s pain to setup IE6 and IE7, because you can take a look of many bugs with render html and vml.

Just forget Wine for the purpose!
Microsoft give us FREE virtual PC images with IE6, IE7, IE8 aboard!
Don’t you believe?

By: Pfff

Pfff — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:49:01 +0000

Hello

How to ask to Firefox to use IE engine as IETab doing?
Any Firefox add-on to loink IE in Wine and Firefox?

By: corey

corey — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:28:56 +0000

never mind got it to work

By: corey

corey — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:26:32 +0000

couldnt get it to work running heron ubuntu, i get An error occured when trying to cabextract some files.

By: Bolo

Bolo — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:33:44 +0000

For me i had to edit the ies4linux file to use the su account to avoid installation errors.

at the top just put in:

#comments are here
su
password
(everything that was there)

if u dont have a su account google super user account and create one