To follow on from my last post, it occurred to me that I could probably run IE on my Linux machine using WINE, which would save me having to run the whole of Windows. A friend had mentioned doing this, but I presumed it would be quite complicated. My Windows VM is currently “installing Security Update 64 of 97”, so I thought I’d look around while I was waiting.
It turns out to be very easy now to get IE5, 5.5 and 6 going, thanks to a script called IEs4Linux.
On Ubuntu, you need a couple of packages from the Universe repository first:
sudo aptitude install cabextract wine
(More detailed info here)
Then you can just follow the instructions on the IEs4Linux page.
This post was made with IE6 running on my Linux machine. Good. It works. Now I can go back to Firefox.
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