[Wine] Installing IE6 and msnmsgr

[James Hawkins]

On 30 Apr 2006 20:29:32 -0700, stephenwq at gmail.com <stephenwq at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to messenger working, and so have read up the page on it. I
> installed DCOM98 and set DLL overrides in wine config.
> So i proceeded to install IE6. Just opening the file would show me the
> window, and i click accept and next. it immediately hangs and
> eventually exits. I wonder whats going on so i type
> wine ie6setup.exe into terminal
> Same window comes up, i have what its doing though this time.
> Error shown was:
> wine client error:e: write: Bad file descriptor //This shown around 50
> times
> wine client error:e: err:seh:setup_exception stack overflow 520 bytes
> in thread 000e eip 002f40f5 esp 03b67df8 stack 0x3b68000-0x3c6800
>

You don't need to install DCOM to install IE6.  I don't know if you
use git or not, but if you pull Mike McCormack's mmbranch and compile
from source, you should be able to install IE6; otherwise, I would
wait till release 0.9.13 to easily install IE6.

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James Hawkins