[Wine] Re: How to install IE6 correctly?

James Hawkins truiken at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 19:16:00 CST 2006


On 12/19/06, Flying <wu_yinghui at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Jonathan Ernst <jonathan at ernstfamily.ch>
>  >
>  > 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
>
> Thanks for the prompt, Jonathan. But do you have more details on how to
> install IE6? I personally tried it (with IE6setup.exe downloaded from
> Microsoft), but the installation didn't complete after the installer
> completes (in Windows, it expects a reboot). But when I run wineboot,
> nothing happened, and the remaining installation didn't proceed on,
> which prevent the actual installation to complete.
>

The install isn't only half completed by the time it asks for a
reboot....that's all there is to the install.  If it doesn't call
wineboot automatically (which it probably did), then wineboot works
fine.

-- 
James Hawkins



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