Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 08 November 2009 21:56:36 Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:34:35 -0800, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for
> 
> a
> 
> >>>>> while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed.
> >>>>>  Does
> >>>>> anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some
> 
> sort?
> 
> >>>>> I looked at the files installed by wine in /usr/bin but didn't see
> >>>>> anything.
> >>>
> >>> Great site, I will use that a lot.
> >>>
> >>> The nice thing about iexplore is it lets you interact with the
> >>> browser, and some pages I need to test are the result of a POST.
> >>>
> >>> My memory failed me before.  iexplore is run like this:
> >>>
> >>> wine iexplore www.example.com
> >>>
> >>> For me the window it loads is blank though.  Is it working for anyone
> >>> else?
> >>
> >> I didn't know this command, it works well for me.
> >>
> >> Boris
> >
> > It's working for me now too.  I just needed to wait a while for it to
> > fully load.
> >
> > - Grant
> 
> That's not the MS Internet Explorer. If you are using it to check your
> site compatibility with MSIE then you are doing it wrong. If you want MSIE,
> you have to install MSIE.

A word of warning though - it's fragile, often doesn't install right and tends 
to break often with each successive version of wine. And that's IE6. We won't 
even talk about IE7...

IE6 installs nicely into a Crossover-Office bottle though. It's worth the 
price of a CrossOver license if you really need Windows stuff for work.

Alternatively, winetricks by Dan Kegel helps with all the drudge work of 
installing into vanilla wine whatever crapfest of dependencies IE6 needs. 
Google for it, there's almost always a current thread on the wine forum about 
the most recent procedure.

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