installing ie6 and directX

[Ben Klein]

2009/3/8 Vincent Weber <weber.vincent at gmail.com>:
> Why do you want to install DirectX on Wine? Wine has DirectX support. :S

Some games/apps want d3dx9_## DLLs, which are currently stubs in Wine.
They are distributed with the DirectX runtime redist, but that doesn't
mean you want full DirectX installed.

> You don't need to use IE to download DirectX. Windows uses ActiveX in IE to
> update itself. You can also just download DirectX directly from the
> internet.

One word: winetricks.