Internet Explorer
is a Windows application and is not made available in other operating systems. You can run Windows
in Linux
as a guest operating system and then run Internet Explorer
, or you can use wine
which is an application developed specifically to run Windows
application in Linux
.
Internet Explorer
could be installed in Linux
using ies4linux
script at the terminal.
wine
and cabextract
. $ sudo apt update && sudo apt install --assume-yes wine cabextract
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]
$ tar -xf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
$ ies4linux-*/ies4linux
Other options for installer:
$ ies4linux-*/ies4linux --full-help Usage: ./ies4linux [OPTIONS] This script downloads and automagically 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
Internet Explorer
versions to install.Internet Explorer
launch script from the ~/bin/
folder.$ ~/bin/ie6
Depending on installed versions, available launch scripts are ie5
and ie7
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