Internet Explorer 6 under Wine

[Marcus Zingmark]

Trying to install IE6 under Wine, running Fedora Core 4, wondering if 
there is something I have to do to open internet access for Wine or so?

I get the message that the installation couldn't download all components 
needed for the installation. It seems like it wont connect at all.

Otherwise, how do I install IE6 using Wine, would be great to know ;)

Thanks.

/// Marcus

[Markus Huber]

Marcus Zingmark wrote:
> Otherwise, how do I install IE6 using Wine, would be great to know ;)

I used winetools to install IE under wine. You can get it here:
http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

Don't know which version of IE it is, but it works. After having 
installed IE I removed winetools again (I don't need it), and I only 
installed IE, because another program running through wine needs the IE.

Internetconnection btw. is no problem. It's just there (at least with DSL).

Regards
Markus Huber

[Dotan Cohen]

On 8/20/05, Marcus Zingmark  wrote:
> Trying to install IE6 under Wine, running Fedora Core 4, wondering if
> there is something I have to do to open internet access for Wine or so?
>
> I get the message that the installation couldn't download all components
> needed for the installation. It seems like it wont connect at all.
>
> Otherwise, how do I install IE6 using Wine, would be great to know ;)
>
> Thanks.
>
> /// Marcus

How did you install wine to FC4? I was just STFA and came across this
post. I see two other posts in the archives of people asking about
installing wine on FC4, and the only one that was successful was an
unofficial wine build from a gaming site.

Dotan Cohen
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[Mariano Draghi]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> How did you install wine to FC4? I was just STFA and came across this
> post. I see two other posts in the archives of people asking about
> installing wine on FC4, and the only one that was successful was an
> unofficial wine build from a gaming site.

Incidentally, I installed wine yesterday. I compiled from source the 
last release (20050725) w/o problems (previous releases had issues with 
GCC4)

I also installed IE6 after that. I didn't use winetools, as wine 
recently has changed many things in the way it manages its 
configuration, and winetools is no longer compatible with it (or the 
compatibility is not tested at best...)

I followed the method described at Frank's Corner:
http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ie6
which is tested on wine 20050725

Regards,

[Claude Jones]

On Sun August 21 2005 10:39 pm, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> Incidentally, I installed wine yesterday. I compiled from source the
> last release (20050725) w/o problems (previous releases had issues with
> GCC4)

I have a question regarding this. In the readme, it states that XFree86-devel 
is needed, but FC4 doesn't use XFree86 but xorg-x11, correct? Do you know if 
xorg-x11-devel is a suitable replacement for the XFree86-devel requirement? 
Is that what you did?
> I also installed IE6 after that. I didn't use winetools, as wine
> recently has changed many things in the way it manages its
> configuration, and winetools is no longer compatible with it (or the
> compatibility is not tested at best...)
>
> I followed the method described at Frank's Corner:
> http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ie6
> which is tested on wine 20050725

On that page, he actually describes 3 methods: the sidenet utility, winetools 
(which I know you've stated above won't work), and a third way which he 
describes as a series of steps. Did you use sidenet or the series of steps he 
outlined?

[Paul Smith]

On 9/4/05, Claude Jones  wrote:
> > Incidentally, I installed wine yesterday. I compiled from source the
> > last release (20050725) w/o problems (previous releases had issues with
> > GCC4)
>
> I have a question regarding this. In the readme, it states that XFree86-devel
> is needed, but FC4 doesn't use XFree86 but xorg-x11, correct? Do you know if
> xorg-x11-devel is a suitable replacement for the XFree86-devel requirement?
> Is that what you did?
> > I also installed IE6 after that. I didn't use winetools, as wine
> > recently has changed many things in the way it manages its
> > configuration, and winetools is no longer compatible with it (or the
> > compatibility is not tested at best...)
> >
> > I followed the method described at Frank's Corner:
> > http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ie6
> > which is tested on wine 20050725
>
> On that page, he actually describes 3 methods: the sidenet utility, winetools
> (which I know you've stated above won't work), and a third way which he
> describes as a series of steps. Did you use sidenet or the series of steps he
> outlined?

You may also want to consider CrossOver Office:

http://www.codeweavers.com/

Paul

[Mariano Draghi]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sun August 21 2005 10:39 pm, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> > Incidentally, I installed wine yesterday. I compiled from source the
> > last release (20050725) w/o problems (previous releases had issues with
> > GCC4)
>
> I have a question regarding this. In the readme, it states that XFree86-devel 
> is needed, but FC4 doesn't use XFree86 but xorg-x11, correct? Do you know if 
> xorg-x11-devel is a suitable replacement for the XFree86-devel requirement? 
> Is that what you did?

Yes, xorg is a replacement of XFree86. Just install xorg-x11-devel.
> > I followed the method described at Frank's Corner:
> > http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ie6
> > which is tested on wine 20050725
>
> On that page, he actually describes 3 methods: the sidenet utility, winetools 
> (which I know you've stated above won't work), and a third way which he 
> describes as a series of steps. Did you use sidenet or the series of steps he 
> outlined?

I didn't try the sidenet method, because I was afraid it wouldn't work 
for the same reasons winetools doesn't work (both tools are similar).
I went directly with the series of steps.