Using Wine

[Wade Smart]

11092005 1304 GMT-5

Thanks TreeBoy and Dan for those posts. So - a not so obvious question 
(well for me that is).... How do I uninstall what I have installed and 
then install ie4linux?

I didnt see that post about checkinstall until after I already installed 
it.

Wade


TreeBoy wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 Nov 2005 02:44, Wade Smart wrote:
> 
>>11082005 2039 GMT-5
>>
>>I got Wine installed but couldn't get a few apps running. No big deal.
>>But the reason I installed it was for IE. On 5.4 I would just type in
>>wine iexplore.exe and it would start. Now it doesnt work that way. I
>>have been looking at the documentation and Im not finding an answer.
>>
>>How do you start a app now?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Wade
> 
> 
> If all you really want is MSIE (which I have to for web dev), then I recommend 
> installing ies4linux.
> 
> Frank's Corner mentions it but doesn't rave about it like I think it 
> should :-)
> 
> http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ies4linux
> 
> It is a very simple (and quite elegant IMHO) bash script that asks which 
> versions of MSIE you want.
> 
> It creates a new WINE config directory.
> 
> It then downloads all required files (DCOM, RichEdit32 etc) and then downloads 
> the install(s) for each of the versions that you want and installs them.
> 
> Finally it creates bash scripts in ~/bin for each of your versions.
> 
> I use ie5 and ie6
> 
> Hope this is helpful.
> 
> Cheers,
>