Running Internet Explorer in Ubuntu Linux
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IEs4Linux Installation in Ubuntu
You have to enable universe packages first. It is also recommended that you use the official winehq ubuntu package:
Open /etc/apt/sources.list file
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Uncomment following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list and it may be different if you are in different country instead of UK
For Ubuntu Dapper Users
deb http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
deb-src http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
For Ubuntu Edgy Eft Users
deb http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy universe
deb-src http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy universe
Add WineHQ APT Repository
or
If you want to add source packages from the repository
Currently, wine only have i386 binary packages available. If you do not use an i386 architecture, or wish to compile the package in a special or optimized way, you can build the wine package using the source repository instead. To do this, add a source repository with one of the following:
For Ubuntu Dapper Users
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
For Ubuntu Edgy Eft Users
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
Close gedit and run an update to take your new Repository
sudo apt-get update
Install wine and cabextract
sudo apt-get install wine cabextract
Now you need to download IEs4Linux script from here
wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.0.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf ies4linux-2.0.5.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-2.0.5
Once you are inside ies4linux-2.0.5 directory you need to run the following script to install internet explorer
./ies4linux
This will install the internet explore in your machine.
To run IE you need to run the following command and it may be different for others this path at the end of installation it will give from where you want to run
/root/bin/ie6
You should see the Internet explorer opening
If try to run /root/bin/ie6 as root user you will get the following error messages so you need to run as user#/root/bin/ie6
fixme:actctx:CreateActCtxW stub!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
Application tries to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
If you want to check more information about this script check here
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…
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… :-/
Hi,
it’s working with Lucid ! Thanks for this great stuff ! I will recommend this for my buddies.
Br,
Peter.
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