IE7 on linux using ies4linux

by jenny on 18 December 2007 - 02:16pm in

Windoze

Installing IE6 and IE7

sudo apt-get install cabextract wine
wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.5beta6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf ies4linux-2.5beta6.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-2.5beta6
./ies4linux --beta-install-ie7 --no-gui

IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe Error

If you get an error like so:

99% IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe!! An error ocurred when downloading. Please run IEs4Linux again. Corrupted file: IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe 

...it's because the filesize and checksum of this file have changed (MS released a newer version), but the new version seems to work just fine. After getting the error, you should have a perfectly good copy of this file here: ~/.ies4linux/downloads/IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe, but the installer thinks it's corrupt. At this point, simply comment out the download of this file and replace it with an explanatory echo statement on line 91 of the file ./lib/install.sh, like so:

echo "Not downloading IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe"
#download "http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/8/8/38889DC1-848C-4BF2-8335-86C573AD86D9/IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe"
 

...then re-run the installer to continue where you left off:

./ies4linux --beta-install-ie7 --no-gui

Running IEs

~/bin/ie6
~/bin/ie7

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Thanks!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 16 October 2008 - 07:22pm.

Thanks a lot for this tip.

Works like a charm !

Submitted by joebert (not verified) on 12 October 2008 - 02:13pm.

The awesome part is it took me less time to type the corrupted file error into Google and get the answer than it would have taken me to track it down myself !

Thankyou. :)