From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7qDf-0001py-Kf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:53:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AED45E09AE; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f199.google.com (mail-pz0-f199.google.com [209.85.222.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0C4E09AE for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so2853658pzk.10 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:53:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=tPYjLQqbQoM4otmD8xhaxcpAV4lyVgNivv/ilA7iBbs=; b=Vv16UFhubZ/YArLzpSkSIJgLvAW/fDFpEslQltlxOm/cX37EAHj0u269kIY5YKrMi5 NJnS8gCZZEVo6HceShzNXgkTJ+hDEiOJ0XLN3jgvSCbDagk3yNMekzodQT4cZt4cst6F RAL8adpXSQblaVmFlVgxCXEsK7UOor43P66XE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uuctJiEzY9skoVQ90FsK3stpUnAnIZENjZhwRV4aEPmxdi8ZMF4xtddLyjtg1kbbMq DWPLCuGhq+oMyIgWkFoCaAAZCXUVZHO9G7Qp2T6mDfx1qZWvuyMYKJ9/Qx4Z6CK+y1yn NBsMNwtk5aygun87BwvQo+SJ99F0T3UmDhqKY= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.33.29 with SMTP id g29mr16428879wag.215.1257857588846; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:53:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0911091333j1285cf0bs26f2bcab22504d13@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10911070502u4455a76ax7f80a9c6ae376ef0@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0911091333j1285cf0bs26f2bcab22504d13@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:53:08 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f10911100453m1b7a616cu674744c9301e342f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine? From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d324997c-43a5-4086-b927-a598dead51f4 X-Archives-Hash: 1a00be2890242ce7ebc249dc61d35137 >> 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. =A0Does >> 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. > > In my experience, even when IE works in Wine it doesn't work exactly > the same as it does on a real Windows machine. I think a much more > reliable way to test things in IE is to download the free XP and Vista > virtual machine images from Microsoft which are intended for exactly > this purpose: > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3D21eabb90-958f-= 4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=3Den > > And here's someone's blog about converting the VirtualPC hard drive > image into other formats for use on Linux in Virtualbox: > http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/running-microsofts-ie-application-compat= ibility-images-virtualbox > > Rather than downloading several virtual machine images, you could just > download one and install IETester into it: > http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage > which lets you do browsing with IE versions from 5.5 through 8 and > side-by-side comparisons between versions. Thanks Paul. I'll set this up ASAP. Virtualbox didn't work for me the last time I tried but that was a while ago. - Grant