Internet Explorer is a Windows application not made available in other operating systems. You can run Windows virtual machine in Linux and then run Internet Explorer, or you can use wine, an application developed specifically to run Windows applications in Linux.
ies4linux is a tool to automate installing Internet Explorer using wine. Internet Explorer can be installed in Linux using ies4linux at the terminal.
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install --assume-yes wine cabextract
$ wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz --2019-08-27 16:08:05-- http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz Resolving www.tatanka.com.br (www.tatanka.com.br)... 69.163.217.24 Connecting to www.tatanka.com.br (www.tatanka.com.br)|69.163.217.24|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 332341 (325K) [application/gzip] Saving to: `ies4linux-latest.tar.gz' 100%[======================================>] 332,341 277K/s in 1.2s 2019-08-27 16:08:07 (277 KB/s) - `ies4linux-latest.tar.gz' saved [332341/332341]
$ tar -xf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
$ ies4linux-*/ies4linux
Other options for installer:
$ ies4linux-*/ies4linux --full-help Usage: ./ies4linux [OPTIONS] This script downloads and automatically installs multiple versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer on Wine. Without any option, IEs4Linux will: - install IE6 - install Adobe Flash 9 - create icons on Desktop and Menu - use folder: /home/user/.ies4linux You can configure other things: --install-ie55 Install IE5.5 in BASEDIR/ie55/ --install-ie5 Install IE5 in BASEDIR/ie5/ --install-corefonts Install MS Core Fonts (corefonts.sf.net) --no-flash Don't install Adobe Flash Player 9 --no-ie6 Don't install IE 6 --no-desktop-icon Don't create an icon in Desktop --no-menu-icon Don't insert icon on Menu --full-help Display all possible options Configurations: --locale LOCALE The locale for the installation [EN-US] --wget-flags FLAGS Extra flags for wget [-c ] --list-locales Display all possible locales and exit Directories: --basedir BASEDIR Base location for installs [/home/user/.ies4linux] --bindir BINDIR Location of your bin folder [/home/user/bin] --downloaddir DLDIR Where downloads will go [BASEDIR/downloads] Other options: --no-gui Don't show gui, perform an automatic installation --gui gtk|kommander Force use of a specific user interface --no-color Don't show colors --debug Run in DEBUG mode --help / -h Display help with simple options Beta options: --beta-install-ie7 Install Internet Explorer 7 (BETA INSTALLER!) IEs4Linux can do other useful (?!) things: --install-ie1 Install IE 1.0 --install-ie15 Install IE 1.5 --install-ie2 Install IE 2.0
$ ~/bin/ie6
Depending on installed versions, available launch scripts are ie5 and ie7
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