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How to install Internet Explorer on Linux

For OS: Fedora Core 5

References:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/forum/viewtopic.php?p=852&sid=004ab8e13ff322f8
ff5cc532d411fc63

yum update sane-backends

yum install wine

yum install cabextract

cd /tmp

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.0.3.tar.gz

tar zxvf ies4linux-2.0.3.tar.gz

cd ies4linux-2.0.3

Change to a non-root user and do the following

./ies4linux

# If you encounter an error like

*******
"Installing IE 6
Initializing
Creating Wine Prefix
fixme:ole:ITypeInfo_fnRelease destroy child objects
/home/anupam.mishra/.ies4linux/ie6 updated successfully.
Your wine does not have wineprefixcreate installed. Maybe you are running an old
Wine version. Try to update it to the latest version.
"
********

# Do the following

cp -a install.sh install.sh.orig

vi /tmp/ies4linux-2.0.3/lib/install.sh

# Change this:
# Code:
# wineprefixcreate &> /dev/null || {
# wineprefixcreate
# error $MSG_ERROR_NO_WINEPREFIXCREATE
# }

# with this:
# Code:
# wineprefixcreate
# Run the following command again

cd ./ies4linux

ie6

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