Internet Explorer 6 under Wine

[Paul Smith]

On 9/4/05, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> 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?

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Paul