How to install Internet Explorer in Linux

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.

1. Launch your preferred terminal application.
2. Install wine and cabextract.

   $ sudo apt update && sudo apt install --assume-yes wine cabextract

3. Download installer script from ies4linux.

   $ 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]

4. Extract downloaded script.

   $ tar -xf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz

5. Execute installer script and follow the instruction.

   $ 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

6. Choose Internet Explorer versions to install.
7. Click Advanced to configure advanced options for the installer.
8. Execute Internet Explorer launch script from the ~/bin/ folder.

   $ ~/bin/ie6

   Depending on installed versions, available launch scripts are ie5 and ie7