Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Install IE 6 in eee pc Linux

sudo apt-get install wine cabextract

download ies4linux
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.99.0.tar.gz

ies4linux-2.99.0
edit this file lib/functions.sh

find this

pid=$(wget -q -b -t 1 -T 5 -U “$useragent” -o /dev/null $URL $WGETFLAGS -O “$file” | sed -e ’s/[^0-9]//g’)
change to
pid=$(LC_ALL=C LANG=C wget -q -b -t 1 -T 5 -U “$useragent” -o /dev/null $URL $WGETFLAGS -O “$file” | sed -e ’s/[^0-9]//g’)

run to istall
./ies4linux -–no-gui

after install, run IE
./home/user/bin/ie6

2 comments:

RĂ©mi said...

Thanks a lot! I was just looking for that. Installing IE on my Eee PC was easier than I thought.

I also modified the ies4linux script to change some variables in order to install IE5 and IE5.5. Simply edit the script using IE and around line 39, change the following entries:

export INSTALLIE55=1
export INSTALLIE5=1

javacom said...

If you have upgraded your RAM, I think Virtual Box is a better choice as IE in linux cannot run some ACTIVEX sites