[Wine] Re: Using native Dlls from original Win2000
Pete Ricksecker
rick2210 at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 19 00:54:15 CDT 2007
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.
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