Thursday, June 4, 2009

Installing IEs4Linux on Ubuntu 9.04

IEs4Linux is an easy way of running various versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer under Linux. Recently, I have installed it on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and went to some problems. The official documentation was not up-to-date, so I was forced to improvize. Here is workaround:
  1. sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
  2. add this line to the file or uncomment:
    deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty universe
  3. add this line to the file:
    deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt jaunty main
  4. wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
  5. sudo apt-get update
  6. sudo apt-get install wine cabextract
  7. wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
  8. tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
  9. cd ies4linux-*
  10. run no GUI installation (since GUI makes all the troubles):
    ./ies4linux --no-gui --no-desktop-icon --install-ie55 --install-ie5 --install-corefonts
Enjoy!

1 comments:

  1. This workaround was very helpful for my jaunty too. Thanks to you -Newbie

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