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Why does Wine stall when I try to install IE6?

Asked by chkneater

I have Wine Doors installed with Ubuntu8.1 I'm trying to install IE6 and it gets about half way and stalls. It gets right up to "installing Scripting Host" and then stalls. I close it out and try again and it gets to the same point and stalls. Is there some secret dance or prayer I need to do? The only reason I need Wine is because I want to use some Emulators. Also, any Windows based emulators will not download from the website. They're compressed as Zip files, which I've DLed before.

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Hemanth (hemanth-hm) said : 		#1

Try this

sudo apt-get install wine cabextract binfmt-support

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

tar xvfz ies4linux-latest.tar.gz

cd cd ies4linux-*

./ies4linux

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On my system the menu entries were not created by the installer - so I had to create them manually. Right click on the GNOME menu and select "Edit Menus".

Click on "Programming" on the left side and afterwards on "New Item" on the right side. Insert a name, the command and optionally a comment for the new launcher. The executables for the IEs are located in your home directory (/home/%your_username%/bin/ie%version%). The path for the IE-icon is /home/%your_username%/.ies4linux/ies4linux.png. Create such a launcher for all IE versions that you've installed.

The Internet Explorers are now available in the GNOME applications menu.

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Hemanth (hemanth-hm) said : 		#2

Try this

sudo apt-get install wine cabextract binfmt-support

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

tar xvfz ies4linux-latest.tar.gz

cd cd ies4linux-*

./ies4linux

_____________________________________________________________________________________________

On my system the menu entries were not created by the installer - so I had to create them manually. Right click on the GNOME menu and select "Edit Menus".

Click on "Programming" on the left side and afterwards on "New Item" on the right side. Insert a name, the command and optionally a comment for the new launcher. The executables for the IEs are located in your home directory (/home/%your_username%/bin/ie%version%). The path for the IE-icon is /home/%your_username%/.ies4linux/ies4linux.png. Create such a launcher for all IE versions that you've installed.

The Internet Explorers are now available in the GNOME applications menu.

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Jaime Rave (jaimerave) said : 		#3

I recommend you better to use Winetricks to install Internet Explorer (http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks), to get it do in the console:

"wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks"

and then:

"sh winetricks ie6"

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