Source: WikipediaI’ve already wrote about installing IE on Debian, but since then things changed a bit and today I finally succeeded to make it run on my Etch box. While the first time round I installed IE due to web-design issues, this time it was IE-only pages that forced me to search for the solution.
The first and most important step is to fetch the latest-greatest Wine version. The whole process is explained at Wine home page so I’ll mention just the necessary commands:
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
and
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/soces.list.d/etch.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
Now we can start following the installation procedure described at IEs4Linux web page. Since the procedure mentioned there is for Sarge, I’ll copy the necessary commands below:
apt-get update
apt-get install wine libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 cabextract
and
wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux
While this should usually work, I encountered a problem – missing mfc42.cab file. Googling around I found it here and downloaded it into ~/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US/ folder.
cd ~/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US/
wget http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vc/mfc42.cab
And after that the install script worked without flaws.
