IEs4Linux

IEs4Linux

IEs4Linux rendering the English Wikipedia with the Ubuntu operating system.
Original author(s)	Tatanka
Developer(s)	Tatanka
Initial release	October 28, 2005 (2005-10-28)
Stable release	2.99.0.1 / February 6, 2008 (2008-02-06)
Operating system	Linux/FreeBSD (or any platform that wine supports) + Wine
Platform	Linux/Mac OS X
Available in	Multilanguage
Type	Web browser
License	GPL
Website	www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux

IEs4Linux is a free and open source script that allows a user to run Internet Explorer (IE) using Wine. It is possible to install Internet Explorer versions 5, 5.5, and 6, along with partial functionality of IE7 (the layout engine was loaded into the IE6 interface, which works well enough to demonstrate how the target page looks in IE7).

This application is oriented towards web developers: it allows users of non-Windows operating systems to view their web pages in a similar manner to how they look on Windows and user who need to use web applications targeted to IE users.

There was a blog post on January 5, 2011 announcing that the developers are now working to support IE9 and will soon release a new version after almost three years of inactivity.

Technical notes

Version 2.99.0.1 does not work out-of-the-box on newer Wine and KDE versions. The solution is to create a symlink with

   sudo ln -sv /usr/bin/winecfg /usr/bin/wineprefixcreate

and then run ./ies4linux with the --no-gui command line option.

Further reading

• David Pendell (September 18, 2008) IEs4Linux lets you install Internet Explorer under Linux, Linux.com
• Fernando Cassia, (September 26, 2006) "IE for Linux" hack offers one more reason not to boot Windows: First INQpressions Foolproof Wine installer script made in Brazil, The Inquirer
• Rickford Grant, Ubuntu for Non-Geeks: A Pain-Free, Project-Based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook, 3rd ed., No Starch Press, 2008, ISBN 1-59327-180-8, p. 169

External links

• Official website
• Installation