Using Wine

[dan]

I just used the one in the repositories, 1.1 I think. (Its in
universe, so you may need to enable it in your sources.list)

Dan

On 10/11/05, Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> 11092005 1853 GMT-5
>
> I have ie4linux and Im looking at Cabextract. There is a older 1.0 for
> Debain and then a newer 1.1 tar.gz. Which do you suggest?
>
> Wade
>
> dan wrote:
> > You should just be able to delete (I prefer to rename) your .wine
> > folder in your home directory. Its hidden (hence the "." before wine)
> > so you may need to show hidden files: (in nautilus) its View | Show
> > Hidden Files.
> >
> > You could just ignore if want though, as ies4linux creates a
> > completely separate directory and places the installs in there;
> > neither should interfere with the other.
> >
> > IIRC checkinstall is for installing programs from source and allowing
> > uninstallations. You want to keep Wine; Internet Explorer is installed
> > from within Wine, separate from the main packaging/source
> > installations that other native programs are installed with.
> >
> > To sum up... I would just run the ies4linux script, thats what I did
> > and it worked a treat.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On 09/11/05, Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> >
> >>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,
> >>>
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