Internet Explorer On Debian
This is very big surprise to me, check out this IEs4Linux! A godsend!
Especially if you are big linux fan, yet need to worry about web pages layouts in Internet Explorer. This is your saviour.
Okay here’s how it starts. Use your synaptic, aptitude, or even apt-get to get these package.
- wine
- libwine
- libxxf86dga1
- libxxf86vm1
- cabextract
After you get packages above installed, download the almighty IEs4Linux here. It is recommended that you run IEs4Linux in individual user account, you don’t need root access for it.
Extract the file, change directory to its location and run the shell script.
Codes:
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux
You will be prompted whether what version of Internet Explorer would you like to install, I chose IE6. You will then see a series of outputs in your console, don’t worry about that, it’s just the program grabbing M$ cab files off the net. And that’s not all, this script will even install the latest Flash Player 9 for you (although it’s a little bit buggy, you can choose no if you want). After around 10 minutes, depending on your connection speed, all is done and you are good to go!
Here’s a snapshot.
P/S: if you are using Debian unstable, there’s no need to follow their instructions on the site (adding backports.org in your apt source list), as all the required packages are already in the default unstable repository.
