[Wine] Re: Using native Dlls from original Win2000

Pete Ricksecker rick2210 at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 19 00:54:15 CDT 2007


Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
> On 2007-01-26, Pete Ricksecker <rick2210 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Duane Clark wrote:
>>> Pete Ricksecker wrote:
>>>> I have an app (Quicken) that looks for IE 5.5 and installing ies4linux 
>>>> does not correct it as Quicken still does not find IE.
>>> To install and use another app with IE installed by ies4linux, you need 
>>> to set an environment variable, for example:
>>> export WINEPREFIX="/home/dclark/.ies4linux/ie6"
>>>
>>> Notice that ies4linux creates a ~/bin directory. In that directory is 
>>> typically a single file (unless you installed several versions of IE). 
>>> That file is a simple script. If you are using the icon that was put on 
>>> your desktop to run IE, notice that the "command" that it executes 
>>> (right click on the icon) is similar to "/home/dclark/bin/ie6". And 
>>> notice that the first thing the script does is to set the WINEPREFIX 
>>> environment variable.
>> Okay.  I executed "export WINEPREFIX="/home/rick2210/.ies4linux/ie6" " 
>> from a shell now Quicken won't even start up.  It was starting up before 
>> doing this, just could not connect to internet.
> 
> Is your Quicken installation in the prefix area in the
> specified path?  If not, fixing that may help.
> 

If by prefix area in the specified path do you mean 
"/home/rick2210/.ies4linux/ie6"?


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