8 January 2008 - 18:42Installing IE6 on Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10)

I wanted to test ShowMeDo’s rendering on IE6. My Windows XP box uses IE7 and I figured my Ubuntu box could run IE6 via Wine…it turns out to be just a simple install step. I was up and running within 5 minutes.

First - install wine. Second, get the ies4linux installer and run it using their last instructions (their step 4):

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

I had to run ./ies4linux three times to complete the installation, I chose IE6 with Flash.  The installer visits microsoft.com to fetch the right versions of everything. It was installed (after the 3rd attempt) as an icon on my desktop and available via the command line: /home/ian/bin/ie6

I then used IE6 to visit windowsupdate.microsoft.com and it identified two updates, both ‘complete’ but upon returning to WindowsUpdate it flags one of them as still being required.  My version of IE6 running on Ubuntu 7.10 is ‘Version: 6.0.2800.1106′.

Ian produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), Python programmer, Artificial Intelligence researcher (Mor Consulting), sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

4 Comments | Tags: ShowMeDo

Comments:

  1. Deacon X says;
    10 Mar 2008 - 19:59

    I did the install from the above site and the program im trying to install is still telling me that i need to install IE 5.01 or later. At this point if i had hair i;d pull it out. Any help will help.

  2. Ian says;
    10 Mar 2008 - 20:43

    Hi Deacon X, sorry - I don’t know much about Wine except my instructions above. It worked fine for me, though I didn’t try IE 5.01, just IE 6.

  3. neko says;
    03 Sep 2008 - 11:36

    pure instructions:

    sudo apt-get install cabextract && wget -c http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz && tar -zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz

    cd ies4linux-* [this was ies4linux-2.99.0.1 this version]

    ./ies4linux

    installer spits this out:

    IEs4Linux will:
    - Install Internet Explorers: 6.0
    - Using IE locale: EN-US
    - Install Adobe Flash 9.0
    - Install everything at: /home/nekostar/.ies4linux
    [ OK ]

    Downloading everything we need
    Downloading from microsoft.com:
    100% DCOM98.EXE
    100% mfc42.cab
    100% 249973USA8.exe
    100% ADVAUTH.CAB
    100% CRLUPD.CAB
    100% HHUPD.CAB
    100% IEDOM.CAB
    100% IE_EXTRA.CAB
    100% IE_S1.CAB
    100% IE_S2.CAB
    100% IE_S5.CAB
    100% IE_S4.CAB
    100% IE_S3.CAB
    100% IE_S6.CAB
    100% SETUPW95.CAB
    100% FONTCORE.CAB
    100% FONTSUP.CAB
    100% VGX.CAB
    100% SCR56EN.CAB

    Downloading from macromedia.com:
    100% swflash.cab
    [ OK ]

    Installing IE 6
    Initializing
    Creating Wine Prefix
    Extracting CAB files
    Installing IE 6
    Installing DCOM98
    Installing TTF Fonts
    Installing ActiveX MFC42
    Installing RICHED20
    Installing registry
    Finalizing
    [ OK ]

    Installing Flash Player 9
    Extracting files
    Installing flash on ie6
    Finalizing
    [ OK ]

    IEs4Linux installations finished!

    To run your IEs, type: /home/yourusername/bin/ie6

    takes you to : http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Congratulations
    at least the first time - testing in youtube did not work, i had to click on the link to grab flash - but it installed perfectly, and works decently.

  4. Shrinath says;
    16 Jan 2009 - 6:43

    Thanks a ton! Earlier I had to boot atleast once into windows each day (dual boot Vista + Intrepid) to test my portal on IE, now I’m spared the agony :)

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