[Wine] Re: Installing IE in custom "Wine-prefixes"

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Monsieur_Smith wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Not a very experienced Wine user, I'm trying to install some software in a non-default directory ("env WINEPREFIX=/a/specific/path wine ..."), but the thing is, IE5 is required. Is there a way to install in that directory the same "IE-like" browser which runs in the default Wine context ?
> 
> (I tried Ies4linux, but installing IE5 or 5.5 that way seems to be broken)
> 
> 


The automatic gecko installer is currently broken (bug 20160 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20160)), so it's best to use winetricks:


Code:
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
env WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix sh winetricks gecko



http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks