How to run Internet Explorer (I.E.) on Ubuntu 9.10

#1 11-16-2009, 08:00 AM

You will need Wine, cabextract and ies4linux.

How to run Internet Explorer (I.E.) in Ubuntu 9.10

Install Wine and cabextract. In Terminal run:
Code:
```
sudo apt-get install wine cabextract
```

Download and unpack ies4linux:

Code:

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*

Run IE4Linux setup:
Code:
```
./ies4linux
```

Why do you need Internet Explorer (I.E.) on Linux

To open web-pages that requires I.E.
To open web-pages with Flash 9
To test web-pages (for web-desidners)

Please note that ies4linux allows to install Internet Explorer 5 or 6. I.E. 7 support is only in beta stage.

I installed I.E. 6 in Ubuntu 9.10. To run it I just used the following command in the Terminal

Code:

ie6

Troubleshooting
If you have problems when running Internet Explorer, make sure you use the latest version (right now it is 2.99.0.1).

If you get a blank Windows when running Internet Explorer, you can use nogui option when installing:

Code: