Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:52:18 -0500 From: eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> To: freebsd-emulation <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: wine and MS InternetExplorer Message-ID: <20080814175218.187454uxox5q8tss@econet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <48A494CC.60704@vwsoft.com> References: <20080810204625.18453tshxwqgptkw@econet.encontacto.net> <78cb3d3f0808120238k163092bfw2e3f5b49a33c9773@mail.gmail.com> <20080813082735.113561o9a39zgwsg@econet.encontacto.net> <48A494CC.60704@vwsoft.com>
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Quoting Volker <volker@vwsoft.com>: > On 12/23/-58 20:59, eculp wrote: >> Quoting Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:46 AM, eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> wrote: >>>> Is there any way to get MS Internet explorer to work under wine. The >>>> government here has some forms that require it and won't work with >>>> firefox >>>> or opera. The part that bothers me even more is that they seem to be >>>> microsoft java apps. >>>> >>>> I see there is an iexplorer in the distribution and I added gecko >>>> support >>>> but still couldn't get more that a transparent box. >>> >>> There is the IEs4Linux project which theoretically could be used also >>> on FreeBSD -- see the link below, follow the installation instructions >>> and let us know what results you get. >>> >>> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/ >>> >>> Apparently there is no FreeBSD port for this at this time, but if it >>> works for you then I guess it would make a really good candidate >>> (especially for enterprise/office environments) >> >> Thanks, Adrian. I took a look at it yesterday but didn't have time to >> install it. I'm downloading it now. It will be interesting to see if it >> is complete enough to work with the government's windows centric forms. >> I will post results to the list asap >> >> Thanks again, >> >> ed >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adrian. >>> >> >> > > ed, > > I'm running IE6 under wine for quite some time now. IIRC I've installed > IE manually. Tried IES4Linux before and found it too difficult to patch > as it's too Linux'ish (heavily Linux specific bash install scripts needs > _a lot_ of tweaking). > > You may find instructions for installation on the net. Make sure, you're > using latest wine and set the environment to Win98 for IE. Running such > a crappy tool (IE) under FreeBSD seems to be braindead, but there are > situations where there's no other way. BTW, check licensing issues first. Thanks, Volker. I agree with the part about brain dead but here you =20 can't access many government forms with out it. Governments aren't =20 usually recognized for their technological brilliance. I'm assuming that you are using only the executable because I have =20 tried to download, unpack and install it windows style and it didn't =20 want to cooperate. This should be better than IES4Linux that I haven't got going yet. It =20 seems to want a newer wine and I'm running wine-1.1.2,1 and have't =20 continued to investigate. I'll give an IE6 executable a try. Thanks again, ed
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