[COLUG] WINE and IE4Linux

[charles morrison]

On Sun September 9 2007, charles morrison wrote:
>   
>> I was playing around with installing IE and messing with WINE Tools and
>> winecfg. I had a lot of problems with wine tools, but did get IE6
>> installed, I think. I went to winecfg and just by accident, changed the
>> emulation to Windows 98. Corel Draw installed! It runs, too! Not sure
>> how well, yet, but I'll let you know what I find out.
>>     
>
> You may do better using ies4linux to install that.   ies4linux incidentally 
> uses a "winebottle" in Windows 98 mode to run IE6.
>
> Dave
>   
The problem is that I have as much or more problems with IE4Linux as I do for WINE. IE4Linux does not use the standard WINE directory path, so when I install a program, it can't find IE at all so the application install fails.

I have never gotten IE4Linux to do anything except browse a previously well specified web address, which does me nothing. IE4Linux is just what some one needs to test web sites while developing under Linux. I have FireFox so I don't need another browser.

After reading hundreds of e-mails about IE4Linux, no one (that I found) has suggested a way to get the application windows installer, which requires IE6, to find it in the IE4Linux path directory and continue with the install. I tried looking through the IE4Linux source code, once. Not being a developer, I just got into more trouble than it was worth.

I recently looked into IE4Linux, and discovered some one finally stated that IE4Linux will never use the standard path, since it is contrary to their desire to keep more than one version of IE active on the same machine for developer's use for web design.

It would be nice if I had a way to change the WINE search path to find IE6 installed under IE4Linux, or some one come up with a version of it for a normal WINE user.

Charlie Morrison

P.S.
I have not quite gotten Corel Draw to work. DeLorme Street Atlas Plus does work, but some things are broken enough I still can't use it for business purposes.