Try Wine Doors. It installs some commonly used windows software in linux using "wine". I hope you know what Wine is. If you dont read the rest of this paragraph. Wine allows you to run windows programs in linux by providing the necessary dependencies (DLLs and what not). so basically once you've installed wine you right double click any "exe" file and it should run in linux. if you perform an install, that program will be properly installed on your system (Applications Menu >> Wine >> Programs >> [Program Name]). Note: make sure that for "exe" files wine is selected as the default handler (right click >> properties >> Open With >> Wine) Or just right click on the file and "Open with Wine..." However, I prefer to virtualize a windows install in linux. I use VirtualBox, did a complete install of windows xp sp3, and now i can run a complete install of windows xp in linux, without ANY issues. helps, because I use visual studio a lot for .net development. but if youre doing this just cuz you like internet explorer... im gonna kill you :P firefox is so much better. recommended addons: downthemall: download manager with resume and acceleration features. xmarks: saves your bookmarks (and passwords tell it to) and synchronizes them across all your PCs. tab mix plus: add some neat tabbing features (tab duplication, re-opening closed tabs, specially if you closed them by mistake, saving browsing sessions (in case you want to save your work for later reference))....... have fun! ~fez <div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/27 Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) <<a href="mailto:amedee-ubuntu@amedee.be">amedee-ubuntu@amedee.be</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> NoOp schreef: > WTF (your quoted) does it matter why the poster is trying to install > ies4linux? Djeerah is trying to install software X because he wants to use it to achieve goal Y. If we know what Y is, perhaps we can give him[*] better solutions. One of the solutions given was to use a virtual machine, like VirtualBox or VMware. I prefer VirtualBox for the desktop and testing development stuff, and VMware for the heavy duty virtualization of servers (ESX and stuff). For virtualization, he would need a valid license for Windows. But legally he would need a valid license for Windows anyway, to run Internet Explorer. [*] I wrote "him", but I don't know if Djeerah is male or female. I don't even know if Djeerah is a first or last name. :-) -- Amedee -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>