Internet Explorer on Linux With installation Steps

IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Linux (Linux dedicated server or any OS running Wine like Mac OS X and other BSDs).

We currently support IE6, IE5.5 and IE5.

Installation steps:-

  [root@ramank ~]# yum install wine*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      23 Packages
Upgrade       4 Packages

Total download size: 17 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:

Complete!


[root@ramank ~]# yum install cabextract
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
Total download size: 95 k
Installed size: 95 k
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): cabextract-1.4-1.fc16.i686.rpm                    |  40 kB     00:00    
(2/2): libmspack-0.3-0.1.alpha.fc16.i686.rpm             |  55 kB     00:00    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                            93 kB/s |  95 kB     00:01    
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : libmspack-0.3-0.1.alpha.fc16.i686                            1/2
  Installing : cabextract-1.4-1.fc16.i686                                   2/2

Installed:
  cabextract.i686 0:1.4-1.fc16                                                 

Dependency Installed:
  libmspack.i686 0:0.3-0.1.alpha.fc16                                          

Complete!

Now download Package.
[root@ramank ~]# wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
--2012-10-23 16:58:40--  http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
Resolving www.tatanka.com.br... 69.163.171.220
Connecting to www.tatanka.com.br|69.163.171.220|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 332341 (325K) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: “ies4linux-latest.tar.gz”

100%[======================================>] 332,341      110K/s   in 2.9s   

2012-10-23 16:58:44 (110 KB/s) - “ies4linux-latest.tar.gz” saved [332341/332341]

My Installation Dir.  /opt/

[root@ramank opt]# tar -xvzf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz

[ramank@ramank ies4linux-2.99.0.1]$ ./ies4linux

Es4Linux will:
  - Install Internet Explorers: 6.0
  - Using IE locale: EN-US
  - Install Adobe Flash 9.0
  - Install everything at: /home/ramank/.ies4linux
[ OK ]

Downloading everything we need
  Downloading from microsoft.com:
   DCOM98.EXE
   mfc42.cab
   249973USA8.exe
   ADVAUTH.CAB
   CRLUPD.CAB
   HHUPD.CAB
   IEDOM.CAB
   IE_EXTRA.CAB
   IE_S1.CAB
   IE_S2.CAB
   IE_S5.CAB
   IE_S4.CAB
   IE_S3.CAB
   IE_S6.CAB
   SETUPW95.CAB
   FONTCORE.CAB
   FONTSUP.CAB
   VGX.CAB
   SCR56EN.CAB

  Downloading from macromedia.com:
   swflash.cab
[ OK ]

Installing IE 6
  Initializing
  Creating Wine Prefix
  Extracting CAB files
  Installing IE 6
  Installing DCOM98
  Installing TTF Fonts
  Installing ActiveX MFC42
  Installing RICHED20
  Installing registry
  Finalizing
[ OK ]

Installing Flash Player 9
  Extracting files
  Installing flash on ie6
cp: cannot stat `swflash.inf': No such file or directory
  Finalizing
[ OK ]

IEs4Linux installations finished!

To run your IEs, type:
 ie6

Now on command prompt run command like this:- $ie6

enjoy IE on Linux.

RK