Wine: MS Money 2004 + IE6

[rob.dip]

Dear all,

yesterday evening, after quite some tentatives and forum readings, I
was able to get IE 6 SP1 installed and working under Wine 0.9.15
(current Dapper version, if I'm not wrong). The installation seems to
be well integrated and also the other applications recognize the
presence of the libraries usually shipped with IE. I must admit that I
still have to try to install MS Money 2001 (the version I own) but I'm
confident that with a bit of luck also this can work.

Here is what I did, so that you can test it and see if it works also
for you.
Let's start from what I have. I have:
- Kubuntu 6.06
- Wine 0.9.15 - standard Dapper package at the moment
- Winetools (as downloaded from
http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ version wt0.9jo
- ie4linux (as downloaded from
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html version 2.0beta6
- cabextract 1.0 from the usual Dapper repositories

What I did:
First, I cleaned all my preavious ".wine" installations/folders and
settings, to have a clean starting point. Then I unpacked ie4linux from
the tar.gz and run it with some small modifications.
When ie4linux asks what to install, I selected only to install IE 6.0
SP1 and not 5.5 and older versions. Then I went through all the other
options with standard values, except for the last one that asks for the
standard install dir. Here I told ie4linux to install not in the
".ie4linux" directory, but in a ".wine" folder. Also the "ie6" script
that launches IE is actually put in the ".wine/ie6/drive_c/windows/"
folder as well. Then ie4linux installs IE and the installation
completes soccessfully.

At this point I made a backup of the folder, just in case something
goes wrong in the following steps.

As a second step, I simply moved all the contents of the ".wine/ie6/"
folder to the ".wine/" folder and removed the ".wine/ie6/" one.

Then I used winetools (after having installed it previously). From the
console I run the standard "wt" command and started winetools. The
first thing to do is to select the basic setup and then the option that
upgrades an exhisting fake windows folder. I accepted the warning
message and let winetools do the upgrade. Then I reinstalled DCOM98,
the fonts and everything in the basic setup, except IE. Winetools will
warn yo later that you don't have it installed, but it doesn't matter,
IE is already there.

As a third step, I modified the "ie6" script that is in the
".wine/drive_c/windows/" folder, to adapt the paths that are there to
the new paths. Of course also the desktop link (if you decided to put
it) has to be modified accordingly.

At this time, I tried to run IE and all went OK.
Then I tried to install the other windows components with winetools,
especially the MSXML one. This one used to fail if I didn't have IE
installed. Now it worked perfectly. The only problem I still have is a
setupapi.dll error with the MS Jet engine. I still have to investigate
it.

So now I have a working standard wine installation with IE 6.

The only remark is that not all the IE components are installed, as it
should be done by using the winetools script for it.
After so many tentatives, I also think that there is some check in the
IE installation process that recognizes that it is not a real windows
installation and stops the setup.

I hope that this can be of some help to all the others.
Thanks for all the nice ideas and suggestions I collected on this
forum.
If you have any troubles, feel free to contact me (but don't expect and
immediate reply :) )

Greetings,
Roberto


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rob.dip