Installing internet explorer on debian linux
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If you develop websites you will want to know how it looks on internet explorer. However, switching to windows only to run the internet explorer gets to be frustrating after a while. Luckily, a nice package exists called WINE available from winehq.org. WINE is short for Wine Is Not an Emulator, which is true because WINE is not. It is more of a windows loader, linker and a shell to display the GUI using X11.
Installing anything over WINE is not simple since one will have WINE DLLs, DLLs out of the package itself and native windows DLLs to choose from. It would have been much simpler if the internet explorer code is released in standard C++ and compiles over UNIX.
I started my trip on the thanksgiving day night, finished two days later approximately 5 to 6 hours of work 2 to 3 hrs per day. I used WINE version 20050310 releaesed with Debian sarge (the stable version at that time). I used information from http://frankscorner.org/ and http://patrick.spacesurfer.com/ie_wine_install.html, and it worked with little bit tweaking.
Later on, I found this script http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html - never tried it.
