Nikhil Dev

One of the limitations that I was facing on using my Ubuntu workstation was the non availability of Internet Explorer for sites that show up well in Internet Explorer. I was aware of this thing called IEs 4 Linux but did not have the patience to install it. But it a big requirement now and I decided to make a compilation of notes on how to install it for various distros of linux. Below are the instructions to install it on several Linux platforms.

Installing on Ubunutu :-

1) Open a terminal

2) Open /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

3) Uncomment (or add) following lines:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy universe

4) Add this line:

deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main

5) Close gedit. Update and install wine and cabextract:

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine cabextract

6) Download IEs 4 Linux and install

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux

Installing on Fedora :-

Its even more easier now that its the YUM installer

Open a terminal. Log in as root to install wine and cabextract:

yum -y install wine*
yum -y install cabextract

Logout and install IEs 4 Linux with your normal user account:

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux

Installing on Gentoo :-

Open a terminal. Log in as root to install wine and cabextract:

emerge wine cabextract

Logout and install IEs 4 Linux with your normal user account:

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux

Installing on Debian :-

Debian Sarge needs some steps before you install IEs4Linux:

1) You need a rather recent wine and libxxf86dga1, get it from backports.org: in /etc/apt/sources.list, add:

#wine
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/

#backports
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main

2) Login as root and do:

apt-get update
apt-get install wine libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 cabextract

3) Logout and login with a user account. Download and install IEs4Linux:

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux