[Wine] Can't install IE6

[Austin English]

On 4/5/08, L. Rahyen <research at science.su> wrote:
> On Saturday April 5 2008 07:41:20 awdoyle wrote:
>  > Using wine 0.9.58 on Ubuntu 8.04
>  > Like an idiot, I tried to install IE7 before doing the research to find
>  > that IE6 was more ideal with far fewer problems.  So after attempting to
>  > install IE7 and failing, I tried to install IE6, but in the terminal I get
>  > this response after typing wine ie6setup.exe:
>  >
>  > Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" is not
>  > accessible. wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ie6setup.exe":
>  > Module not found andrew at andrew-desktop:~$ Warning: the specified System
>  > directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
>  >
>  > I often (but not always) get an additional pop up box telling me that the
>  > install failed because IE7 is already installed.  I've tried removing the
>  > dir, uninstalling/re-installing wine, and googling the errors, but so far
>  > it's a wash.  Any suggestion you can offer is very much appreciated  :?
>  >
>  > Andrew
>
>
>         Run this:
>
>  mv ~/.wine{,.backup}
>  wineprefixcreate
>
>         Then you will have clean WINE prefix.
>
>         However, personally I do not recommend to install IE in default WINE prefix.
>  To use another WINE prefix you need to run this:
>
>  export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine.ie6
>  wineprefixcreate
>
>         Then you can run wine to install IE or anything you want in this WINE prefix.
>  Just remember to set proper WINEPREFIX environment value to actually use it.
>         Of course you can create launch icons on your desktop, aliases, etc. with
>  this WINEPREFIX in order to run Windows programs (installed within it)
>  quickly, without typing each time command in a terminal to export WINEPREFIX.
>
>

Why are you trying to install IE6? If for testing web pages/etc, try
using ies4linux. It is not supported by wine, so don't use it for
other apps, but when you have to have real IE, it takes a lot of the
work/trouble out.