[Wine] Re: How to install IE6 correctly?

Jonathan Ernst jonathan at ernstfamily.ch
Tue Dec 19 09:25:34 CST 2006


[...]
> 
> Frankly speaking, I admire all the hard work done for IEs4Linux. But 
> IEs4Linux sucks IMHO.
> 
> First of all, ideally, I'd like IE be installed into my existing .wine
> folder, instead of a new profile.
> 
> Secondly, and more importantly, I want IE to be running in a
> Win2k/WinXP WINE environment. (IEs4Linux always set the environment to
> Win98, thus preventing my to further install other software in the
> environment that requires IE.--Most software nowadays requires some
> features from Win2k/WinXP...)
> 
> For the above simple reasons, I can only wait till there's better
> solution...

ies4linux is nice if you actually want to use IE for web browsing. If
you need IE to satisfy an installer, you might try to go builtin by just
adding the required keys to the registry or install IE (it installs
without any problem in current Wine, running it is another problem).

Jonathan





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