Run Internet Explorer 6.0 in Linux with Wine

Posted on March 6th, 2008 in Applications, Windows by admin

If you’re a web developer you’ll need a machine with access to Internet Explorer to test the work you’re doing. Or maybe you just want to play around. Either way you’ll need Wine. Wine allows users to run many (definitely not all) windows applications. Due to the recent effort Google has put behind Wine, even Adobe CS2 and CS3 run great on Linux.

To get started with installing wine and IE6.0 we first must obtain wine.

And that’s it. In your home directory you should now have a folder called .wine (it’s a hidden folder). In there you can see the folder structure common in Windows.

To install IE
note, you might want to install spybot search and destroy via wine as well ;-)

We’ll get the IE4Linux installation script that will automate our install of IE6.

And now IE should be running on your Linux desktop.

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