First you need to install wine to get it through:
sudo apt-get install wine
Steps to get Internet Explorer are:
1. Open winetricks (Applications->wine->Winetricks)
2. Choose the option, "Select the default wine prefix" (confusing to me since I don't know what a prefix is and it sounds like I'm doing something that will be the default for everything in wine)
3. Click "OK"
4. Choose option, "Install a Windows DLL or component"
5. Click "OK"
6. Now choose IE6, 7, or 8 from the list and check the checkbox
Note: Choose one option at a time as wine need to restart after each install.
7. Click "OK"
After installation it will ask for "restart", this will not restart your system but restart the "wine".
You also get some error messages, just click on OK.
From now on, if you need to run the installed program then go to Applications -> wine -> Browse C: Drive -> Program Files -> Internet Explorer -> Run "iexplore.exe" with "wine"
So, would you ever say that you can not run Internet Explorer on Linux? :)
sudo apt-get install wine
Steps to get Internet Explorer are:
1. Open winetricks (Applications->wine->Winetricks)
2. Choose the option, "Select the default wine prefix" (confusing to me since I don't know what a prefix is and it sounds like I'm doing something that will be the default for everything in wine)
3. Click "OK"
4. Choose option, "Install a Windows DLL or component"
5. Click "OK"
6. Now choose IE6, 7, or 8 from the list and check the checkbox
Note: Choose one option at a time as wine need to restart after each install.
7. Click "OK"
After installation it will ask for "restart", this will not restart your system but restart the "wine".
You also get some error messages, just click on OK.
From now on, if you need to run the installed program then go to Applications -> wine -> Browse C: Drive -> Program Files -> Internet Explorer -> Run "iexplore.exe" with "wine"
So, would you ever say that you can not run Internet Explorer on Linux? :)
15 comments:
Great help. Thanks a lot.
Just a add-on we can also install IE using PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty
PlayOnLinux is just the GUI of WINE and we may or may not need to install it.
Guys who want to install the software in WINE via a GUI tool, must give a try to PlayOnLinux.
Thanks for sharing Yogesh, I appreciate it :)
This works, but I don't have an address bar. I can't navigate to anywhere. Wut?
You may be try to install IE 7, 8 at once, uninstall and install one IE at a time :)
No you said to install only a single one at a time, so I did. I think this might be a wine regression bug.
Thanks for sharing
Play on linux is the best
kudos to the team who developed it
Ravi! You did great. thanks buddy
Could u please explain how to navigate in ubuntu the following way
Applications -> wine -> Browse C: Drive -> Program Files -> Internet Explorer -> Run "iexplore.exe" with "wine"
Its like opening Application from Top menu and then go to Wine Section and so on...
Hi Ravi,
It is very much fine and i followed the same process and installed IE8 but there is no option of IE9.How will we install IE9 on ubuntu11.04 ?
Lal Sahab
i did all the above steps, after open the file C: Drive -> Program Files -> Internet Explorer -> Run "iexplore.exe" with "wine" getting below blocked alert
The file '/media/90FEDFC7FEDFA3AE/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied from an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit. Please any one advise on this.
Please check if that file has the executable permission or not, to do this, right click on file and mark it as executable
Thanks Ravi. Good help
thanks ravi that was a great help
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